Oracle Makes Red Hat Kernel Changes Available As Broken-Out Patches

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @12:47PM from the hey-why-not dept.

Artefacto writes "The Ksplice team has made available a git repository with the changes Red Hat made to the kernel broken down. They are calling this project RedPatch. This comes in response to a policy change Red Hat had implemented in early 2011, with the goal of undercutting Oracle and other vendors' strategy of poaching Red Hat's customers. The Ksplice team says they've been working on these individual patches since then. They claim to be now making it public because they 'feel everyone in the Linux community can benefit from the work.' 'For Ksplice, we build individual updates for each change and rely on source patches that are broken-out, not a giant tarball. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to take the right patches to create individual updates for each fix, and to skip over the noise — like a change that speeds up bootup — which is unnecessary for an already-running system.'"

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RHEL.... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-13 13:00 · Score: 5, Funny

If you want a real enterprise class O.S. ditch RHEL and go with Solaris 11.
One reason to have faster bootup is to get a by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-13 13:00 · Score: 2, Funny

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Re:Gift horse = Mouth by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-13 13:06 · Score: 4, Funny

How eviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil of them to make the individual patches available for all. Slaughtering babies isn't even this evil.
RedPatch? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-13 13:25 · Score: 5, Funny

Better cover that RedPatch with an iPad
That's not true by Andy+Prough · 2012-11-13 16:18 · Score: 1, Funny

Red Hat's blobs have been discussed at great length on Slashdot.