On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Gary Thornock suggested we build a large wooden badger: > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > So, what's the difference between "the official RH kernel source" > > and "the official kernel source"? What are distros putting into > > kernels behind my back? > > > > Theron > > Red Hat includes several patches in their kernel source. Most or > all of those patches are available separately, and are things you > could put into your kernel yourself if you really wanted to, but > then you'd have to work out any conflicts between the patches > yourself. The disadvantage, of course, is that you don't *know* > which patches they used, or what conflicts will arise if you try > to apply additional patches yourself.
The kernel-*.src.rpm file contains all the patches used. There appear to be quite a few. RedHat is likely to include quite a few from the -ac patchset, considering they employ Alan Cox. > Presumably most other distributions do much the same thing. Some, > like Gentoo, offer a choice of kernel source packages with different > patches (or with none at all). They're also likely to have a list available somewhere. Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK CSR Computer Science Department Brigham Young University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
