[Pc_Support] Generic Linux question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

.... Several years back (late '90's) I had the impression that SuSE was 
somewhat disdained by some geeks for their practice of making 
alterations to kernel (& possibly other) code in their distro. I *think* 
that most of the other 'big boys' (RH, Mandrake, maybe others) now do 
this as well. They are mostly back-porting newer stuff from newer 
kernels, as I understand it, but their kernels are nonetheless not 
identical & possibly incompatible with other binary packages because of 
these alterations. It is also considered unwise to try to use "vanilla" 
kernels from kernel.org with these distros because of possible/likely 
incompatibilities. Does anyone have a quick synopsis or a link on who 
does what to their kernels, distro-by-distro ? TIA :-).

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	William A. Mahaffey III
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