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Re: ISDN with RedHat 6.0?



Eli Marmor writes:

 > > What?! I didn't know that. What do they add? So you're not supposed to
 > > build your own kernel on Red Hat?
 > 
 > Of course you can build your own. But it is better to use THEIR.

That mightly sucks. 1) they can add security holes with their patches,
and little people would know because the code isn't reviewed like the
rest of the kernel, actually most people don't see that code at all;
2) if the kernel crashes you can't easily submit a bug to linux-kernel
because who knows whose fault it is, the kernel deevlopers' or Red
Hat's; 3) this general approach -- of forking your own version instead 
of doing the regular well-established route of submitting the patches
to linux-kernel -- makes me sick.

What the hell is going on here? How do people accept this kind of
thing so lightly? I don't get this...


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