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A comment on The Magical Mystery Merge Or Why we run FreeBSD-current at Netflix (2023) [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:The Magical Mystery Merge Or Why we run FreeBSD-current a... by kstrauser on Monday June 10, 2024 @03:43PM (#40637875)
> infact google still uses a 2.2 kernel with all custom back ported updates of the last 30 years.

Say what?

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Re:The Magical Mystery Merge Or Why we run FreeBSD-current a... by mbilker on Monday June 10, 2024 @04:02PM (#40638142)
They are trying to get off or have gotten off their kernel fork called "Prodkernel" for some time now.

https://lwn.net/Articles/871195/ https://events.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/0...

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Re:The Magical Mystery Merge Or Why we run FreeBSD-current a... by yencabulator on Monday June 10, 2024 @04:29PM (#40638584)
And ProdKernel generally lags mainstream by only a few years, as can be seen in the things you linked to.

The change being talked here is moving from merge ~2 years to merge all the time. Saying they're stuck on something from 1999 is ridiculous.

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