[CentOS-devel] ksplice and CentOS

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

Jeff Johnson wrote:
> 
> On Jul 21, 2011, at 7:29 PM, Brandon Ooi wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Sam Wilson <kahn at the-mesh.org 
>> <mailto:kahn at the-mesh.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     I too am sad to see KSplice gobbled up by (evil corporation here).
>>     Though I am in the same boat as Khusro in that I probably can't
>>     really contribute to active development I am sure I have some
>>     hardware that can be dedicated to testing and QA for a KSplice fork.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     Sam
>>
>>   
>> I would not be surprised if we see RH do something about this. They 
>> contribute the most to linux development of anybody. Anybody know 
>> someone at RH to see if there are plans? Possibly done on the Fedora 
>> side and trickle down to RHEL/CentOS?
>>
> 
> Um, does it matter what Oracle and RedHat are doing?
> 
> This is Centos, most users are here because they cannot afford to
> pay for either RedHat or Oracle product for whatever reason.
> 
> To paraphrase a recent LWN quote-of-the-week (and not from smooge ;-)
> 
> If you're not paying for THEIR product, you ARE their product.
> 
> If you would like be "product", while have fun!
> 
> Meanwhile if splice is useful and their is interest, you're gonna have
> to generate a kernel patch stream somehow in order to make splice
> Just Work (and continue to work) in CentOS.
> 
> 73 de Jeff
> 

There are CentOSPlus kernels available. They can be modified as desired.

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