Red Hat Stops Shipping Kernel Changes as Patches

Posted by Unknown on Friday March 4, 2011 @04:40AM from the clearly-the-best-solution dept.

mvar writes to point out a report from h-online about the Red Hat kernel source controversy. From the article: "Red Hat has changed the way it ships the source code for the Linux kernel. Previously, it was released as a standard kernel with a collection of patches which could be applied to create the source code of the kernel Red Hat used. Now though, the company ships a tarball of the source code with the patches already applied. This change, noted by Maxillian Attems and LWN.net, appears to be aimed at Oracle, who like others, repackage Red Hat's source as the basis for its Unbreakable Linux. Although targeted at Oracle, the changes will make work harder for distributions such as CentOS."

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Re:Good for them by Lumpy · 2011-03-04 05:35 · Score: 3, Funny

And it makes it easier to put in code that detects if it's an oracle repackage and spew out "ORACLE SUCKS" on the text console and in the logs.

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Re:diff by repetty · 2011-03-04 05:38 · Score: 3, Funny

Maybe they could use a computer to speed that process up.