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From: James Bruce <bruce@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: jeff shia <tshxiayu@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is the vanilla kernel?
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:45:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <434A4654.40607@andrew.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7cd5d4b40510100325q730f710focecd05c05c2f56d@mail.gmail.com>

jeff shia wrote:
> I still have some questions.
> The stable kernel is called vanilla?but the file name is linux-version.tar.gz?
> Such as the kenrel linux-2.6.8.tar.gz can be called a vanilla?

The term "vanilla" is short for "plain vanilla", which means lacking in 
adornments or extra features.  It is derived from the use of vanilla as 
a basic flavor in deserts to which other optional flavors may be added. 
  For the kernel, vanilla simply refers to Linus' kernel with no extra 
patches applied to it.

Example:
   2.6.13 is a vanilla kernel
   2.6.13-rt3 is not (it's vanilla 2.6.13 + rt patches)

  - Jim Bruce

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-10 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-09 23:48 jeff shia
2005-10-10  0:20 ` Mark Knecht
2005-10-10 10:25   ` jeff shia
2005-10-10 10:43     ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-10-10 10:45     ` James Bruce [this message]
2005-10-10  0:25 ` Grant Coady
2005-10-10  6:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-10-10  6:38   ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-10-10  6:55     ` Steven Rostedt
2005-10-10  9:12       ` Patrick McFarland
2005-10-10  7:11   ` Jan Knutar

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