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2.4, The Kernel and Forking

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. Re:Uhh, they do, sort of... by duffbeer703 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Begin Slashbot Argument:

    The kernel is free. Unless Oracle opens up their code, we don't care about them.

    GPL R001z!

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  2. Re:RedHat's kernels = more like dev kernels by 10101001+10101001 · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you wouldn't call Red Hat 7.x production code?

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