From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: reiserfs on redhat advanced server?
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:35:56 +0300
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To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
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Hello!

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:21:48PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> I'm not saying this is good or bad, but it is just they way it is. I can't
> really see a distribution shipping a plain, unpatched kernel. Trust me. Every

http://www.slackware.com
(Don't read it as if I propose to use slackware ;) )
Some of their releases were shipped with vanilla kernels.

> distributor would love too, because it would lower cost for them. You know how
> much highly qualified _work_ is needed to maintain a distribution kernel?
> Nobody does that out of their own free will.

This only confirms that linux kernel development model is somewhat flawed at general.

Bye,
    Oleg