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What about vendors?
What about vendors?
Posted Dec 19, 2005 14:58 UTC (Mon) by dlang (subscriber, #313)In reply to: What about vendors? by rakoenig
Parent article: "Just works with Linux"
it's true that getting the hardware to work with the kernel.org kernel doesn't instantyly make it work with all distros, however once or twice a year (sometimes more) the distros update their kernel from kernel.org. (this is one of the reasons for the 2.6 development model, to allow the distros to sync up more frequently and reduce the lag (and divergance) between the different kernels.
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What about vendors?
Posted Dec 21, 2005 9:26 UTC (Wed) by wilck (subscriber, #29844) [Link]
once or twice a year (sometimes more) the distros update their kernel from kernel.org
This isn't true for the enterprise distros. They stick to the same base kernel for years, just backporting new drivers as they see need.