> > I was under the impression that kernel.org was the authoritative source > > for the Linux kernel. What people are doing on the side was their own > > project. *shrug* I could be wrong :-) > > 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 -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1
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