Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:08:43 +0300 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) |
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On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 05:04:35PM -0400, you [Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu] wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:31:31 +0300, Ville Herva said: > > > Anyway, as (one kind of) end user, I do welcome the new development model. > > I'll get the newest features in manageable manner, and if I don't fancy that > > I can resort to vendor (Fedora) kernels. > > You *do* realize that the kernel in the Fedora development tree is > actually *ahead* of the released kernel.org tree, right? > > The current kernel-2.6.7-1.494.src.rpm is based on 2.6.8-rc1-bk5, with a > bunch of RedHat/Fedora patches on top of that. > > And the 2.6.5-1.358 kernel that shipped in Fedora Core 2 is actually a > 2.6.6-rc3-bk3 with patches on top of that. > > I think you meant the RHEL series of kernels - current there is > 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL, with backports of security/bug fixes.
You are absolutely right, Fedora was a bad example. RHEL is better. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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