On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:25:05AM +0800, Ian McKellar wrote:
> Its about the patches that they apply to the kernels they ship. Suse (who I
> don't personally like as a distro) ship a 2.2 kernel with the USB backport
> patches applied. The point is that its not Linus' fault that RH doesn't ship
> with decent USB support - if they wanted to they could do what Suse do -
> fund development and put time and energy into getting it into their version
> of the kernel quickly.
>
> Linux /isn't/ linux. I don't know of any distribution that ships an unpatched
> kernel. Many people treat Linus' kernels as a stable baseline to develop on
> top of.
>
> The original message would have been more useful if there was a link to the
> USB backport patches, but I would hardly call it advertising.
The link to the publicly available backport patches is:
http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/
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