Re: The difference between Linus's kernel and Alan Cox's kernel

From: Erik Mouw (J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL)
Date: Fri May 25 2001 - 16:32:18 EST

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:12:39PM -0300, Thiago Vinhas de Moraes wrote:
> Why there are two different kernel trees? There is always the official
> release, provided by Torvalds, and then Alan provides a patch merging Linus's
> stuff, and adding (?) tons of bug fixes.

I just added this to the kernelnewbies FAQ:

  http://www.kernelnewbies.org/faq.php3

Erik 

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