kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Mar 25 19:09:15 UTC 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:06:07PM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
 > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 00:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
 > > Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
 > > > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 12:35 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
 > > >> I don't think that anyone has said that you can't make a special
 > > >> spin with this kernel in it.
 > > > 
 > > > For what it is worth, I actually am saying that such a spin can't be
 > > > called Fedora, under the existing trademark guidelines, since I am
 > > > opposed to any "alternative kernel" packages in the Fedora repository.
 > > 
 > > Well, there is still something called kernel-xen.
 > 
 > Yes, but it isn't a separate package, it is built off the kernel SRPM.

actually it was completely separate. Which is why it was stuck at 2.6.21,
whilst kernel was quite a few revisions ahead.

	Dave

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