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Re: kerneli
- To: Adi Stav <adi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: kerneli
- From: Shaul Karl <shaulk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 01:25:07 +0200
- cc: Gaal Yahas <gaal@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-il@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-Reply-To: Message from Adi Stav <adi@linuxqa.com> of "Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:30:58 +0200." <20000331123058.H1101@homer.linuxqa.com>
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> On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:02:06AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 09:30:49PM +0300, Gaal Yahas wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > I'm not following lkml. Could anyone who is say why aren't the
> > > > international and mainstream kernel trees being merged? (Or
> > > > perhaps they are, but it'll take some time?)
> > >
> >
> >
> > What is lkml? Don't I have only one kernel src on my machine? Then why are
> > you talking about merging the kernel trees?
>
> Linux Kernel Mailing List. I recommend the excellent summaries at
> http://kt.linuxcare.com .
>
I looked for these summaries but could not find them. Can you be more
specific? Can these summaries be subscribed to so that it will be obtained
automatically every day or every week? I am thinking about the DWN (Debian
Weekly News) model.
> > > It was suggested, but it was turned down because there are still many
> > > countries in the world (I think Sweden was the example used) that have
> > > encryption problems and they didn't want to limit Linux's distribution
> > > or make mirroring illegal.
> > >
> >
> >
> > What encryption has to do with it?
>
> Lots of countries have legal limitations on the use, export or import
> of encryption software. The US recently lifted some of its own
> limitations but many countries still have them. The Linux Kernel guys
> want to make sure that people can download or create mirrors of the
> kernel without risking themselves. So http://www.kerneli.org holds an
> "international" (i.e., non-us, because of the US limitations in the
> past) tree adding encryption to the main kernel. Apparently Linus now
> wants to merge the trees, but to make sure that people who can't take
> the encryption stuff can remove it easily.
>
Then the main purpose is that the kernel src will be signed and have an MD5 or
similar checksum. The fact that it gets encrypted is only a by product. Am I
right?
>
> > -- Shaul Karl <shaulk@israsrv.net.il>
>
> - Adi Stav
>
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