Aniartia wrote: > For the sake of mild curiosty, what's 'special' about the -ac kernels?
The -ac kernel patches are produced by Alan Cox (hence the name). They consist of a number of more or less experimental features that often migrate into Linus's official kernels after a while. For example, the ext3 filesystem is currently part of Alan's patch. (ext3 is also available as a stand-alone patch from the ext3 developers. That's the patch you would use if you wanted to add ext3 to Linus's kernel.) There are a number of people (including me, not that I'm an expert) who consider the current -ac kernels to be superior to (more reliable than) Linus's, despite the nominally "experimental" nature of the -ac patches. Actually, one could argue that Linus's kernels are at least as "experimental" as Alan's these days, since Linus chose to introduce essentially a whole new VM in 2.4.10 -- a rather large change to make in a "stable" kernel series -- while Alan has stuck with the previous 2.4 VM, preferring incremental fixes to wholesale replacement. Craig
