> > ... and there was Net2 and then NetBSD which begat OpenBsd and FreeBSD....
> >
> > Separate trees and confusion does not help us. Sigh.....
>
> It's not another tree, it's just some vendor additions maintained as a
> patch not a tree.
>
> Look at the "big" distributions - how many of those do you think ship
> vanilla, unaltered 2.0.x kernels? Not many, if any, to save you the
> trouble of looking.
But, apart from caldera shipping (erk!) streams, I'm not aware of a
distribution shipping a kernel with significant extra functionality.
RedHat, &c, ship with _known good_ kernels + _known good_ bugfixes.
RH5.x may have shipped with a pre-release kernel, but only because
it was shown to fix bugs present in earlier kernels _without breaking
anything_.
I imagine that if a tear-drop-a-like had appeared just before their CD
image went to the pressers, they'd have dropped the just the fix in,
rather than the whole latest pre-patch.
Matthew.
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