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Kernel Summit: Development process

Posted Jul 23, 2004 12:52 UTC (Fri) by erich (subscriber, #7127)
Parent article: Kernel Summit: Development process

Avoiding Fragmentation
Having read the "let distributors do the stabilization" concept, i'm scared:
This will lead to incompatible kernels, i fear.
I really do prefer if there is the-one-and-only true linux kernel, and if that satisfies the needs of distributors without much modifications.
Otherwise we're gonna need a "Linux Kernel Standardization Base" sooner or later...
I really do not want to see "SuSE Linux Kernel 9.2", "RHEL Linux Kernel 2.7.1", "Fedora Linux Kernel 2.7.3", "Debian Linux Kernel 2.7.4-foobar.1", "Gentoo Linux Kernel 0.2.7.1" and so on.

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Kernel Summit: Development process

Posted Jul 23, 2004 13:16 UTC (Fri) by chip (subscriber, #8258) [Link]

What, do your eyes not work now? Because if you can't see that, it's because you're not looking. I did kernels for VA Linux, and we had over 250 patches back in the 2.2.18 days. Red Hat had about 200 patches too, IIRC.

Kernel Summit: Development process

Posted Jul 23, 2004 14:38 UTC (Fri) by erich (subscriber, #7127) [Link]

Yes, i know that we already have a lot of fragmentation, but we should try to reduce that, not increase that.