Kernel snapshots and kernel versions

[Rahul Sundaram]

Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I this video:
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1742374580386548257&q=andrew+morton+linux+kernel&total=3&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
> 
> Andrew Morton talks about some aspects of the linux kernel. Near the
> end of the video, he talks about how to contribute and he says that
> both Fedora and Open Suse provide -linus snapshots of the kernel.
> 
> I couldn't find this snapshots. Could any of you point me to the proper place?

Fedora tends to follow upstream quickly so the new releases of the 
kernel are available in the standard repository. The development 
repository (Rawhide) would have the latest snapshots. Also refer

http://people.redhat.com/davej/

> My second question is: How far are the Fedora kernels from the
> equivalent Vanilla ones? Andrew says it's okay to use Fedora/Open Suse
> kernels to report problems. Does this means that these kernels are
> very close to the vanilla version?

Yes or atleast that's the goal.

http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/85039.html

This is not just for the kernel but for the entire distribution on the 
whole.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream

Rahul