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Maybe not for CentOS as a project, but it can be disadvantageous for CentOS as a community. If you are running CentOS, and run into some new bug, you cannot eas
by danieldk 16y ago
Maybe not for CentOS as a project, but it can be disadvantageous for CentOS as a community. If you are running CentOS, and run into some new bug, you cannot easily back out or cherry-pick patches.
A more interesting question is how this affects Oracle. In Unbreakable Linux 5 they replaced Red Hat Enterprise Linux' 2.6.18 kernel by their own custom 2.6.32 build.
Since Red Hat is pretty agressive at getting changes merged in mainline, Oracle can profit from their work anyway.