Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2702 mails)

[kukuk@xxxxxxx (Thorsten Kukuk)]

On Wed, Jun 02, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> 
> > > 1/ suse will only support there prcompiled kernal , the will not suport the
> > > stock "kernal.org" kernals , as they haved added some fixes and modified
> > > the code somwhat. They told me that they will not suport the other kernals.
> 
> Really scary.  Where does SuSE document the changes they've made to the
> kernel and why?  I haven't found any such disclosures.  So in effect,
> what I'm getting isn't even Linux?

Sorry, but I think you are not able to read ? Michael Hasenstein
has post it very often the last days. rpm -qi lx_suse will
show you, that we have updated some drivers which makes problems,
ISDN because the original version doesn't work very well, and
translated the kernel documentation in german for our german
customers. 

> 
> > Precisely. Perhaps SuSE's plan is to force users to upgrade to an 'unsupported'
> > kernel by hiding the supported one - and thus be able to deny them support
> > without giving any further reason. Like they did to me.
> 
> If they're not distributing the kernel as released by Linus, then
> they're not distributing Linux.  The FreeBSD people would have a field
> day with this disclosure <wry grin>.

Please read the GPL. You should do it. And our package is called
SuSE Linux.

  Thorsten


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