On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Michal Zeravik wrote:
I'm using redhat9 shrike and have couple of questions:
Will be here a stable release of Fedora?
Of course. Fedora Core 1, by definition will be the stable OS
release.
Can I upgrade Shrike directly to Fedora?
Yes. But upgrades from any beta release to Fedora Core 1 might
or might not work - it's never guaranteed.
Does Fedora have the same patches in kernel like in other rh
kernels?
Hard do answer that without you giving specific references to
individual patches and then comparing the kernel from Fedora to
the kernel from a previous release that you're refering to within
the context of the comparison. The Fedora Core kernel is
developed and maintained as it always has been within Red Hat
Linux in the past. It is a newer kernel version than what is in
Red hat Linux 9, so there will of course be differences as some
stuff has been merged into the upstream kernel, etc. now.
Can I use other patches to kernel (low latency, capabilites,
preemptive,...)?
There's nothing preventing anyone from patching the kernel with
whatever they are skilled to engineer a patch for. Since most
3rd party patches out in the wild are based upon Linus's official
kernel releases, as always, they may or may not apply cleanly to
Red Hat's kernel because our kernel is not a stock Linus kernel.
Our kernels contain numerous patches, and if the patch you wish
to apply conflicts with other patches we already ship, then you
may have to fix things by hand in order for it to apply. Once it
applies, it may or may not work at all depending on what the
external patch is dependant on, and what might have changed in
our kernel.
Low latency patches have been included in Red Hat kernels for a
long time. Not sure what exactly you mean by "capabilities" as
Linux capability support has been there for years, possibly
since 2.0.x kernels. You'd need to clarify that.
Pre-empt patches are not present, and are not really useful
anyway. I'll leave that as a subject of debate though between
those who care to debate it, and the relevant and knowledgeable
kernel people. Or for mailing list archives or google.
Hope this helps.
--
Mike A. Harris
ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat