Re: The Kernel

[Rick Jones <rickya@siservices.net>]

Paul Anderson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Rick Jones wrote:
> 
> >
> > He's talking about the *SEUL* kernel not the *Linux core* kernel.
> >
> It appears someone's been messing with the carpet again.  What then, may
> I ask, is the SEUL Kernel supposed to be?  I -THOUGHT- the kernel was the
> part of an OS that contained the actual code, or will we be distributing
> popcorn with SEUL?  TTYL!

It is a bit confusing.

There are, in effect, 2 projects going on.  The Linux core is going to
be put together as a proposed standard for all dists to follow.  It will
have the *core* files that all dists should use to keep things stable
from one to the next.  That way vendors can port to Linux with
confidence that it will run on all of them.

Then there's SEUL it's self.  It will, ofcourse, be built over the Linux
core.  So a standard kernel with modules is part of the Linux core.  Any
pre-compiled binaries with different options (ipfw, ipmasq, eth, slip,
mbone, etc) will be in the dists base layer which is the layer above the
Linux core.

So if a dist (i.e. SEUL) decides to put a patch in the kernel that is
most likely going into the next actual kernel version, they will put it
in optional not Linux core.