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. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
