Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ubuntu kernel tree

From: Ben Collins
Date: Wed Nov 09 2005 - 10:21:38 EST


On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:36:36PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 05:37:52PM -0800, Ben Collins wrote:
> > * A kernel geared toward a real world Linux distribution, supporting
> > drivers and subsystems that end users need. You will find a lot of
> > external drivers in our tree, that for whatever reason, are not included
> > in the upstream kernel. We hope that including these drivers will give
> > users a one-stop kernel (no downloading and compiling external modules),
> > and also provide much needed testing for modules hoping to be included
> > into the mainstream kernel.
>
> Does this include the various closed source drivers that you include in
> your distro releases?

I don't have anything to do with the restricted modules package found
outside of our main distro tree.

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Ben Collins <ben.collins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Developer
Ubuntu Linux
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