What are the differences btw. vanilla, mm, love...?

docvalde · n00b Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Germany

Hi there,

i know about the versioning scheme of the linux kernel, as odd numbers behind after the dot are development versions and even are stable releases. But the names for the different versions of one kernel version confuse me (BSD-user, we don't have that, sorry :-).

Can someone please post an explaining link or a short summary of the differences?

TIA && rgds,

Malte.
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Earthwings · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 5:29 pm Post subject:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml

diastelo · Guru Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 521

Vanilla is your basic kernel, unmodified, approved by Torvalds, and distributed at kernel.org. Development-sources is Gentoo speak for the 2.6 series of kernels. Everything else has "patches" applied. Patches are commonly used to add features that are not in the stock kernel or to update drivers included with the kernel. The above link discusses some of the differences between these different patched kernels.
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docvalde · n00b Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Germany

Thank you so far. I can't find "love" on the linked page, but i think i generally understand the different sources.

rgds,

Malte.
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Earthwings · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 6:07 pm Post subject:

love-sources is not in portage. Basically this is mm-sources plus some even less tested, even more unstable patches.