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Ubuntu-Debian shared kernel

Posted Sep 19, 2008 13:05 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: Ubuntu-Debian shared kernel by salimma
Parent article: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

Other packages have longer release cycles than the kernel has.

Also, Ubuntu and Debian have different policies about what is allowed to
go into the kernel. Ubuntu allows "binary blobs" that Debian does not.

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