[fab] Non-standard kernels in the Fedora Multiverse

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed May 10 16:53:13 UTC 2006


Josh Boyer (jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org) said: 
> Ok, I'm going to stumble here a bit because I think we're coming at this
> from two totally different viewpoints.  Bear with me.
> 
> What products is Fedora supposed to be supporting?  If you look at it
> from existing kernels today, I see: stock, Xen, GFS, cman, dlm and gnbd.
> Then we're talking about others like OLPC, CCRMA, etc.

There's a difference here. GFS/cman/dlm/gnbd are modules; they (theoretically)
run on most any kernel.

Xen, OLPC, and CCRMA are all variants of the kernel, involving
patching core code and rebuilding the core kernel.

The rest of the points stand, though.

Bill




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