Re: Kernel

[Spencer Portee <sporty@sporty.org>]

this was the answer I was looking for.  That (the splitting up in ra and
va) is a bad thing, no?  I mean now people will have to buy redhat linux
instead of leenux.

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Aaron Turner wrote:

moo> 
moo> /me realized that he didn't competely answer the question...
moo> 
moo> 2.2.12-6 is the 6th iteration of the Red Hat 6.1 kernel which is based on
moo> 2.2.12.  RH and VA like to tweak the kernel a little bit for various
moo> reasons.
moo> 
moo> VA actually bases their kernels on the RH kernels.  I don't really konw
moo> what RH does to them, but I know VA adds patches so that the kernel runs
moo> better on their hardware (often the lastest DAC960 or SymBios driver
moo> doesn't make it into the lastest stable kernel).
moo> 
moo> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Spencer Portee wrote:
moo> 
moo> > moo> Well I looked at the 2.2.13 readme, and looks like there are a number of
moo> > moo> fixes that are applicable to us (networking, security, and SMP) that the
moo> > moo> stock 2.2.12 kernel doesn't have.  I know the 2.2.12-6 kernel on VA's site
moo> > moo> is based on a pre-RH 6.1 kernel, so I'm pretty certain that it doesn't
moo> > moo> have the fixes.
moo> > 
moo> > how many kernels ARE there??  I thoguth it was just the splitting up of
moo> > the beta and stable, but what are these others?
moo> > 
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