[100282] in RedHat Linux List
Re: New Kernel Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Reed)
Thu Nov 19 14:11:42 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:14:55 -0500
From: Dave Reed <dreed@capital.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <36545C19.4EF41A3E@twopoint.com> (message from Michael Jinks on
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 17:57:45 +0000)
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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.
> >
> From: Michael Jinks <michael@twopoint.com>
>
> 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.
Depends on whether you're talking about compiled kernels or source
code. RedHat may compile different options into their kernels than
other distributions and certainly the choice of what is a module
vs. what is compiled in directly will most likely differ.
Now the source should almost be the same. I believe the definition of
pristine sources is not as strict as you make it - I think it means
that the original source is pristine, but there my be patch files that
the SRPM applies so the resulting code that is compiled may not be the
same across distributions. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm
wrong.
Dave
dreed@capital.edu
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