Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264936AbUFRBiL (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:38:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264924AbUFRBes (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:34:48 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:30369 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264920AbUFRBe3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:34:29 -0400 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness Organization: Deban GNU/Linux Homesite In-Reply-To: <40D23EBD.50600@opensound.com> X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.4-20040225 ("Benbecula") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.5 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:34:23 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1133 Lines: 26 In article <40D23EBD.50600@opensound.com> you wrote: > Sure we can fix the problem with SuSE - we've been doing this for the past 7 years. > And we know a thing or two about Linux kernels but wouldn't it be better for the > Linux community in general to have such source issue stabilized? No, because Linux encourages distributions to try out features they think their customers need. Suse/Novell is shipping enterprise kernels which work on large hardware, have the optimizations needed for supported hardware vendors and for third party like RDBMS. They even backport drivers so their kernels are more stable and compatible for their customers. If you look at debian kernels, they have even more patches. Some of them are even needed to actually make them boot on some platforms. Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat - http://www.eckes.org/ Project Freefire - http://www.freefire.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/