Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness

[Horst von Brand]

Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx> said:

[...]

> Well, Slackware Linux usually ships with an unmodified kernel.org kernel
> (there are rare cases of patches that fix security issues though). I find
> this a very nice property of Slackware since there are never any problems
> when replacing the default kernel with a custom build kernel.org one...
> There are other minor distributions that also ship with kernel.org
> kernels - I don't have a list at hand, but I've run into several over the
> years.

I have been running stock Linus kernels for ages on Red Hat. Sure, RH
patches their kernels extensively, but the trouble is usually with stuff
like modutils and such needed for the experimental series.
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