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Re:What Is Wrong with Enterprise Linux by smarx007 on Monday July 17, 2023 @02:44PM (#36762292)
Interesting, thank you for the details. This means that in some way, RHEL is ahead of Oracle Linux in terms of kernels? I don't see an UEK version tracking Linux 6.1 at all, AFAIK.
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Re:What Is Wrong with Enterprise Linux by cylo on Monday July 17, 2023 @02:49PM (#36762353)
It's true that Red Hat does pull in changes from upstream for several subsystems of Linux. It's genuinely a frankenkernel mixed with code from 6.3, 6.1, etc.

But you're still beholden to what the Red Hat maintainers are pulling in and focusing on. It's still not a general follow upstream wholesale.

You can see and track what UEK is doing by looking at their Github: https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek/commits/uek7/u1

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Re:What Is Wrong with Enterprise Linux by bonzini on Monday July 17, 2023 @04:55PM (#36763950)
See here for an article that describes how it's done --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36763935
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