Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

[Bill Davidsen]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
>> I have read a bit about the zen kernel
>>
>> http://zen-kernel.org/
> 
> Looks like this is a fork of the kernel Linux which hopes for confusion with 
> Xen to grab people's attention.
> 
> They're merging several patches. Some of the stuff they ship (e.g. btrfs) is 
> also shipped in the Fedora kernels and should be headed for upstream soon 
> (but e.g. btrfs is not ready for production use, it's not the default in 
> Fedora for a reason, we ship it only for testing purposes). Some other stuff 
> (I've noticed at least reiser4 and tuxonice) has been rejected outright and 
> is likely to never make it into the upstream or Fedora kernel, or at least 
> not without significant changes. And some of the stuff they merge is just 
> additional modules which could be built as out-of-tree modules just as well.
> 
> I think the Fedora kernel maintainers have more expertise about what patches 
> are reliable enough for production use and maintainable in the long run than 
> those "merge everything" folks.
> 
btrfs is not ready for prime time for sure.

As for TuxOnIce, you can hardly blame people for wanting software which will not 
only suspend but includes resume. Suspend/Hibernate are pretty broken, for many 
people TOI works.

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