Red Hat Stops Shipping Kernel Changes as Patches 184
mvar writes to point out a report from h-online about the Red Hat
kernel source controversy. From the article: "Red Hat has changed
the way it ships the source code for the Linux kernel. Previously, it
was released as a standard kernel with a collection of patches which
could be applied to create the source code of the kernel Red Hat
used. Now though, the company ships
a tarball of the source code with the patches already
applied. This change, noted by Maxillian Attems and
LWN.net, appears to be aimed at Oracle, who like others, repackage
Red Hat's source as the basis for its Unbreakable Linux. Although
targeted at Oracle, the changes will make work harder for
distributions such as CentOS."
Re:Good for them (Score:4, Funny)
And it makes it easier to put in code that detects if it's an oracle repackage and spew out "ORACLE SUCKS" on the text console and in the logs.
Re:diff (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe they could use a computer to speed that process up.