[Gllug] Custom kernels

Doug Winter doug at pigeonhold.com
Tue Sep 30 09:37:32 UTC 2003


On Tue 30 Sep Henrik Morsing wrote:
> But if RH, S.u.S.E. etc, starts changing the kernel it will be a mess to
> keep track of won't it?

Debian, for one, only ever applies patches that have been accepted for
the main kernel branch anyway.  It's just too much effort for them to
maintain patches that aren't destined for merging.

Some of their kernels are quite heavily patched, however, but this is
almost always an advantage.

doug.

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