The person you are thinking of is Alan Cox. Linus Torvalds handed the Linux
maintenance over to him. Alan works for Red Hat. So it's not surprising that
Red Hat has patches before they go out officially. The ok form Linus still
has to be made before a patch becomes official. Check out June 200 of
_Linux Journal They have a interesting article called "We Talk to Everybody"
It's kinda of a Who's Who in the Linux world.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 05:23
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: redhat is not linux?
>
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>
> On 08-May-00 int27h opined:
> > Well, Long time ago I heard that rh don't have the same kernel like the
> > rest
> > linux distro, and just days ago i got a www.redhatisnotlinux.org
> > mentioning that rh has gone to be an independent os using gnu distro?
> >
> > comments?
>
> Redhat tend to use kernels that are patched somewhat differently from the
> 'real' ones. By that I mean that in 5.2, 6.0 and 6.1 I found that the
> latest patches in the RedHat kernel were NOT published patches. By THAT I
> mean the Linus (or whoever) had yet to integrate the patches into the
> 'real' kernel. When they DID get integrated, they were slightly
> differently done.
>
> So what?
>
> Well it makes applying a later patch from ftp.kernel.org a real bear!
>
> BUT you want proof its 'Linux' (that is, that the rest of RedHat is able
> to run on a standard Linux kernel) - I deleted the RedHat Kernel sources,
> downloaded the kernel.org sources, configured as I wanted, recompiled and
> 'lilo'd. Worked with no problems what-so-ever! And patching is now SO much
> easier!
>
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