Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 09 May 2004 08:49:23 +0200 (CEST) | Subject | Re: Distributions vs kernel development | From | Rene Rebe <> |
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Hi,
On: Fri, 07 May 2004 12:03:00 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > 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. > > Fedora Core runs stock 2.4 and 2.6 kernels just fine... :) > > Jeff
Since other use this chance to propose already well known distributions I just want to add that ROCK Linux is also designed to run vanilla kernels - and in fact we only patch vitally important changes (such as compile fixes / header fixes) into the -rock kernel.
http://www.rocklinux.org
Sincerely yours, René Rebe - ROCK Linux stable release maintainer
-- René Rebe - Europe/Germany/Berlin rene@rocklinux.org rene@rocklinux-consulting.de http://www.rocklinux.org http://www.rocklinux-consulting.de
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