On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:10:54PM -0600, Brian wrote: > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Shawn wrote: > > > In a sense, isn't this already being done with the various ports > > offered by different vendors? > > Yes, but often vendors *cough* Redhat *cough* like to add their own > little patches and so forth. I'd rather grab a vanilla kernel and apply > the stuff *I* want patched in. What do you prefer? A hacked up debian kernel that has *important* modules like, oh, i don't know, ext filesystem support as a module? > > I won't go into whatever Gentoo did to theirs, I don't remember what I saw > in there but it sent for scrambling for the vanilla source! Feel free, most folks who would notice the difference have the know-how to compile their own. I for one appreciate the fact that redhat puts time and money into working on the linux kernel. > > -Brian -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203