Re: kernel-source-* packages

[Brian Brazil <bbrazil@netsoc.tcd.ie>]

The differance between vanilla kernels and debian kernels is that Debian
a) removes stuff it believes to not be sufficiently free - something
about patches to eeproms
b) adds some patches - e.g. some additional network card drivers

Also in my experiance they don't create the /usr/src/linux symlink. They
just dump a .tar.bz2 in /usr/src (and maybe some docs in /usr/share/docs
but I can't say for definite).

Personally I use vanilla kernels - compiled 2.4.25 in the last few hours
in fact using kernel-package. Damn security holes...

Brian