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Dismaying Indeed

Dismaying Indeed

Posted Jul 21, 2004 11:09 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Dismaying Indeed by ken_i_m
Parent article: Kernel Summit: Development process

On the other hand, imagine a world where the distributors actually ship something close to the mainline kernel (because it already contains their patches) and developers can actually hope to see their work distributed in a reasonable period of time. These changes could actually make vendor kernels more alike and life easier for independent developers.


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Dismaying Indeed

Posted Jul 22, 2004 17:38 UTC (Thu) by piggy (subscriber, #18693) [Link]

I for one am very excited. It is difficult to get customers to pay for kernel work in the development branch. Almost everyone wants their work done against the production branch. A longer active development lifetime for 2.6 means more potential for contributions from commercial developers.

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