On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:53:46AM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > > > Use the 'kernel-source' packages and you will get extra features and > > bugfixes patched in by Debian which are not in stock Linux. For example > > 'kernel-source-2.2.18pre21'. When installed the archive gets put into > > Is this anything like RedHat's customized kernels? My experience with > those was that the headers were broken in a subtle but deep way, > so that third-party kernel module source, for example, would not > compile. >
No. > If these Debian patches are so great, why aren't they in the official > kernel source? > Because the patches didn't exist when 2.2 was released. That is the nature of a patch. For the most part patches are created to fix bugs that were unknown when the original was released. > There's too many Unixes as it is, why have more than one Linux? > Unix/Linux is a tool. Do you use only one tool when fixing a car? No, you use the right tool for the right job. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke