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Yes, at a macro level that is how it works, but practically due to having an enormous number of distributions there are many more forks. For example, the CentOS

• masklinn 9y ago
  That's not "the linux kernel" though, and distros are semi-separate actors which you can interact with independently from the baseline kernel — which happened here incidentally, Lima's original comment notes that Red Hat was contacted separately from the core kernel. Something which will likely be more common in the future if the mainline kernel team don't fix their handling of embargoes, they're incentivising security researcher towards having them discover vulnerabilities at embargo lifting along with the rest of the world.