Messages in this thread | | | From | Måns Rullgård <> | Subject | Re: Distributions vs kernel development | Date | Fri, 07 May 2004 18:05:43 +0200 |
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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> writes:
> After having being burned twice: first by Mandrake and supermount, and > second by SuSe and reiserfs attributes; are any of the distributions > committed to making sure that their distribution will run the standard > kernel? (ie. 2.6.X from kernel.org). When running a non-vendor kernel, > I need to reasonably expect that the system will boot and all the > filesystems and standard devices are available. I don't expect every > startup script to run clean, or every device that has a driver only in > the vendor kernel to work.
My last slackware install used an unmodified kernel, I don't know if the latest versions so the same. I run gentoo with vanilla 2.6 kernels. I recently installed a vanilla 2.6 kernel on a redhat9 machine, without any problems (which quite surprised me).
-- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se
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