[Gllug] Custom kernels

Jason Clifford jason at ukpost.com
Tue Sep 30 09:17:19 UTC 2003


On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, 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?

No. It has worked fairly well for the past 7 or 8 years.

As a user you can always compile a "vanilla" kernel from the official 
sources if you want however the additional features/drivers added by 
RedHat and the like are a good thing - they provide what users want and 
offer a controlled testing environment backed by commercial support.

Jason Clifford
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