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Re: New Kernel Question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Jinks)
Thu Nov 19 14:03:15 1998

Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 17:57:45 +0000
From: Michael Jinks <michael@twopoint.com>
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Gerry Doris wrote:
> 
> Are the new kernels that appear at distributor sites the same?  In other words,
> do distributors like Redhat modify those kernels for their own distributions or
> are they all the same.
> 

RedHat claims to use 100% pristine sources, so yes, a kernel from their
site should be the same as a kernel from anywhere else.  I can't speak
for all sites and all distributions, but in general the kernel should
not be distro-dependent.


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