On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:32:59AM +0200, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) writes:
>
>
> - All the Kernel source trees from the vendors (a Redhat distributed
> kernel is an entirely different beast from Linus Linux)
>
Vendor kernels are much like BigMamma. SuSe for instance ships a source
with pre-aplied patches for hardware not yet suported in the main 2.0 tree.
This is good as it provides us as lot of users to test this patches hihi.
As to 2.1ac, mt understanding it's they are Alan's little playground where
he can tweak stuff without actually breaking the main tree.
[snipet]
>
> Yes, we must remove pressure from Linus as a person. But not by
> implementing a patch approval commitee and a closing up policy.
>
I recommend reading some Dilbert books to anyone who intends to have a Linux
Kernel Commitee.
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