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But what about commercial Hardware and Software Vendors

But what about commercial Hardware and Software Vendors

Posted Jun 21, 2007 10:32 UTC (Thu) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
In reply to: But what about commercial Hardware and Software Vendors by MalcYates
Parent article: Long-term support and backport risk

If those people are targeting more than a single distribution, then distribution kernels with thousands of backports can make their lives harder, not easier. It means that there is yet another kernel to support, possibly with major differences to the upstream one.


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