2.4, The Kernel and Forking · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Hemos on Monday April 19, 2004 @04:30AM from the not-as-such-but-fun-discussions dept.

darthcamaro writes "We all assume that the kernel is the kernel that is maintained by kernel.org and that Linux won't fork the way UNIX did..right? There's a great story at internetnews.com about the SuSe CTO taking issue with Red Hat backporting features of the 2.6 Kernel into its own version of the 2.4 kernel. "I think it's a mistake, I think it's a big mistake," he said. "It's a big mistake because of one reason, this work is not going to be supported by the open source community because it's not interesting anymore because everyone else is working on 2.6." My read on this is a thinly veiled attack on Red Hat for 'forking' the kernel. The article also give a bit of background on SuSe's recent decision to GPL their setup tool YAST, which they hope other distros will adopt too."

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damnit! by tolan-b · 2004-04-19 04:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

i moderated you overrated instead of underrated by accident, so i'm just posting this to void my moderation ;)
1. Re:damnit! by MartinG · 2004-04-19 05:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Thanks.
  
  Hmm. I wonder if the moderation you voided will still be eligible for meta-moderation or not?
  
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