[ILUG] Mandrake - it works....but why?

[Kevin Philp]

On Thursday 10 February 2005 14:20, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
>Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> On Thursday 10 February 2005 10:39, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
>>> Fedora uses a vanilla 2.6 does it not?
>>
>> Actually, it doesn't.
>> Fedora has its own modified kernels.
>>
>> (I'm not sure what a "vanilla kernel" is?
>> Surely one has to choose among options in any case?)
>
>Actually, now that you mention it... I'm not entirely sure where I
>picked up that term some ill defined long term memory tells me that
>vanilla should be a term that is applied to official ftp.kernel.org releases
>
>I'm not sure if that is an offical term to describe kernel.org releases,
>or just a slang, I picked up, hanging out with internet wierdos !

Vanilla is used to describe kernels in both the Debian and Gentoo handbooks. 
In Gentoo it specifcally refers to the kernel straight from kernel.org with 
no Gentoo patches: From the Gentoo manual

vanilla-sources (the default kernel source as developed by the linux-kernel 
developers), gentoo-sources (kernel source patched with performance-enhancing 
features)

So your comment about grabbing a vanilla kernel direct from kernel.org was 
correct.

But then maybe I count as one of those internet weirdo's

Kevin.