Redhat 9 -- where is "download"?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Jul 26 17:33:00 UTC 2005


On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:19:50PM -0400, Henry Spencer wrote:
> Part of what is/was going on behind the scenes here (I'm told) was that
> Linux kernel development had *almost* forked:  Alan Cox had an increasing
> collection of favorite changes that he hadn't managed to get accepted into
> the official kernel, and he was essentially backfitting them into each new
> release.  Don't know if this is still happening. 

Well there are still -ac kernels and -mm kernels and a few other kernel
developers have their own trees that they test certain features in.
Many of the features do eventually make it into the Linus tree of
course.

Lennart Sorensen
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