Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:39:21 +0000 From: markzero <mark@darklogik.org> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not? Message-ID: <20050315093921.GA63033@logik.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20050315092634.GT18080@alzatex.com> References: <20050312123840.19848c79.alfredoj69@gmail.com> <423346F4.7060007@makeworld.com> <885a1a993c8a666d9d4a5d6ec94031e1@chrononomicon.com> <20050313213436.GL18080@alzatex.com> <12395e66e47f4a9cbbac323fb833a9b3@chrononomicon.com> <20050314123953.GA1198@gothmog.gr> <7b1348cc2feb386f19ba391700245abe@chrononomicon.com> <20050315092634.GT18080@alzatex.com>
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--liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I was under the impression that kernel.org was the authoritative source= =20 > > for the Linux kernel. What people are doing on the side was their own = =20 > > project. *shrug* I could be wrong :-) >=20 > kernel.org is the official source of straight vanilla linux, but no > distros use vanilla linux, they all have tons of patchs applied to it, > some more than others. Even source code device drivers sometimes have > trouble compiling with these heavily patch kernels. Each distro has too > worry about what security patches their version of the kernel needs. > It's not nearly as clean as the way the BSDs do it. Slackware Linux uses a vanilla kernel, it's famed for it. Interestingly enough, you can use NetBSD pkgsrc on Slackware. It's probably the only distro that's clean and plain enough for it to work on... Mark --=20 PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iQIVAwUBQjatR6faOQ/e/53RAQqsdw/9HFHdfoNV7LhPcTsvUSbdXRXKokfeMc2Z /K6oP+VxkMB2JUpq1482Q+dbmsVSnVeVEZvQB6tH4OHZnEN2BUHbay73L/qrgCps afqbR2yvUfCAEzOR758amaAPS2qRkghBKUW4yYSxRjOFhdDVWfr16RDnPh3q4/gc 5oaelsn7tIVf89OVSqhuoNCut48yxCGm3cL/6zzRVfQMAtYW/QieBVoF52sU1sI1 FwAWMlVhFRy9RFKpEimR9UM7iCPN6geywSmkYXoCG7YosCKDdauBPff0Zc8nK3yH VvmGYwEyvwVVeMI0qW+niwF9mScO0Bme1vV0BV88lO+E/tw8AqjpiWCfOB5ZIbf0 C1Y3yiRuzBOGMZ3+OXXAgTmeJ7abWrorWRvzf3RElBBo+/wZm0UYjQBgTaoBBSKP wQxyhOlH/XikGenX2RZ0/8K+awYxJzPSzsAhcmtDRQBUAeX1beCqcknpuw2q2oyV mJVXpkIbJ+Y+VNItzHo1i1YytOo53n1nAQAPiS8Ir6xROvph1cu3RHXzpIScHBqm VWsJIY6h8GHUKGk8zu6BtwXWrigWFJy079SKPh+qB77tLxlZq0xa2EdGLN/6i8Wj u8okm7QVFlQ2t24GqQjzSo3wNZjRvTUbd3fkXnaHHQTGRHCrt9yidFayxk5SHOEx eLSAznILUqU= =X6fY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr--
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