Posted by: Anonymous
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on September 18, 2007 03:30 PM
Lots of forks of Linux exist. Just about every linux distribution maintains its own fork. SUSE has a fork. Red Hat has a fork for each version. Then theres the 2.4 and 2.6 version. I could probably come up with more.
Forking in Linux is OK because the kernel is GPL. Good parts of the forked code can be put back into the mainline Kernel and that happens. The forks serve their purpose and then die once the mainline moves on.
If somebody wants to fork the Kernel and put the SD scheduler in there as the default. Wonderful! Good luck maintaining it, but wonderful! Maybe it will work better and maybe it won't.
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There are lots os forks of Linux
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 131.238.49.41] on September 18, 2007 03:30 PMForking in Linux is OK because the kernel is GPL. Good parts of the forked code can be put back into the mainline Kernel and that happens. The forks serve their purpose and then die once the mainline moves on.
If somebody wants to fork the Kernel and put the SD scheduler in there as the default. Wonderful! Good luck maintaining it, but wonderful! Maybe it will work better and maybe it won't.
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