[Gllug] Custom kernels

[Tethys]

"Henrik Morsing" writes:

>IBM has been shipping linux kernels with their own features in them for a
>while and now RedHat starts selling distributions (source: today's IT
>week) with customised kernels.

"now RedHat starts"? RH have been shipping custom kernels as long as
I can remember, as have every other major distribution. No one ships
unmodified kernels from Linus, and they haven't done for a long time.

>Is this a good or bad trend?

It's a good trend. Distributions need to be able to ship a kernel that
they're happy to support, and that provides the features their customers
require.

But quite apart from that, the IT Week article doesn't seem to imply
any kernel changes anyway. AFAICT, it's only claiming that RHES 3.0 has
its userland compiled PIE, which only needs a linker with Jakub's PIE
patches, not kernel changes (despite what the article claims, unless
I'm missing something).

Tet

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