Quoting Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:41:38AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Are the Debian 2.2.20 images absolutely vanilla kernels? So what I'd > > get from a Debian mirror is identical to what I'd get from > > www.kernel.org? > > No, they're not. Well, the 2.4 ones aren't, at least. Debian needs to > supply (at least) the patches *somewhere* to comply with the GPL. >
Ah hah! This is why there are 2.2.20 patches, but no source. Presumably they are against the vanilla kernel. Any way, I grabbed the 2.2.20 source from testing and built a custom kernel that's half the size. (On a 512MB desktop, no biggie. On my 20MB laptop, this matters.) Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
