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. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant