Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 07:07:34AM -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
> > They're plans are exactly what the Red Hat source said...they're working
> > toward getting their code approved, for inclusion, by Linus Torvalds.
> > Not much winds up in a distribution level kernel unless it's already been
> > approved by Linus.
>
> Um, you haven't actually seen this for yourself, have you? Not much goes
> into Debian (most that does is stuff that's already in the latest -pre, just
> backported by Xu), but RedHat is absolutely amazing. Download their kernel
> source one time, at one stage they had over 200 individual patches in. It's
> like all of their packages, they have stacks of patches that generally break
> stuff, and that they never submit upstream anyway.</rant>
Red Hat's only claim regarding this, is that they never make changes that add
system calls, or modify their API.
- Toralf
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