Controversy Kernel "obfuscated" to RHEL6

The Debian project developer Maximilian Attems was the first to launch the voice of warning in an interview when he said that the new Red Hat Enterprise 6.0 (RHEL6) ships with a 2.6.32 kernel "in a daze."

Attems actually refers to Red Hat does not include separately all the patches applied to your RHEL6 Linux Kernel, but a big "tarball" with all those patches applied together. Although the act itself does not violate your license GPLv2 kernel, it does much more difficult for other distributions based on RHEL the work of discerning what is the status of the Kernel before applying their own patches.

Such is the case of CentOS, community-based distribution that is a clone of RHEL binary level, but also Oracle Linux 6, which can be downloaded free (as opposed to RHEL) and has plans to support U $ S 99 per year ("considerably less than new prices RHEL6?).

Soon, the same Red Hat Inc. issued a press release clarifying his official position in this whole affair:

"When we launched RHEL6 about four months ago, we changed the kernel version of the package to have all our patches applied by default. Why did this change? Speaking frankly, the competitive environment has changed. Our competitors in the market have changed Enterprise Linux business strategy to build and compete with their own Linux distributions, to one that directly come to our customers by providing support for RHEL.

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