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Enterprise distributions and free software

Posted Mar 8, 2011 13:12 UTC (Tue) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641)
In reply to: Enterprise distributions and free software by michaeljt
Parent article: Enterprise distributions and free software

I think what they are currently doing is creating their own stable-kernel by doing a lot of inhouse testing.

As there is already a stable kernel I'm not sure if creating their own is the solution.

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Posted Mar 8, 2011 14:28 UTC (Tue) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

Actually I was musing about a situation in which distributions precisely would *not* maintain their own forks.

Enterprise distributions and free software

Posted Mar 8, 2011 20:17 UTC (Tue) by Fats (subscriber, #14882) [Link]

Unfortunately I don't see how it could work in our reality.
You have two packages and you fix an interoperability between them for a customer. Neither of the upstream packages wants to accept the patches as they say it is only the other packages fault or are just not interested in interoperability.

What do you do ? If you don't fork it for all your customers you are basically forking for each customer separately. I don't think this is a better way of working.