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Linux in the News - Wednesday

Linux in the News - Wednesday
By Linux News Desk
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April 21, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
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"Backporting" isn't good, Says SUSE's Geck; Torvalds - "No, it's...very good"

GECK

"SUSE's chief technology officer said he believes the practice of 'backporting' features from the 2.6 Linux kernel into older versions is a 'bad thing' because it interferes with standardization of the open source operating system.  During a keynote address at the Real World Linux Conference...Juergen Geck also chided industry players to avoid practices that could further fragment open source standardization efforts."

Juergen Geck, reported at InternetNews.com, April 16, 2004

TORVALDS

"I think it makes sense from a company standpoint to basically 'cherry-pick' stuff from the development version that they feel is important to their customers. And in that sense I think the back-porting is actually a very good thing."

Linus Torvalds, reported at Internetnews.com, April 20, 2004

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