On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:38:55AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > They are heavily patched. > Still heavily? Really? Certainly not as heavily as they used to be > patched with Red Hat Linux. Last time I looked, the number of patches > was down to a few dozen or less. Compare that with a well-known other > Linux distributor, where you might need four digits for the number of > kernel patches applied. ;) How about some numbers? :) For kernel-2.6.8-1.521, diffstat run on all of the patch files in the RPM says: 546 files changed, 28339 insertions(+), 1880 deletions(-) By comparison, kernel-2.4.20-31.9 from Red Hat Linux 9 gives: 3334 files changed, 495015 insertions(+), 91223 deletions(-) So, significantly less is changed -- but thirty thousand lines of changes might still count as "heavily". -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
