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-<h1>DebConf 11</h1>
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 <h2>The Linux kernel in Debian</h2>
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-<h3>Ben Hutchings</h3>
+<h3>Ben Hutchings and Max Attems</h3>
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-  <h1>The author</h1>
-  <ul class="incremental">
+  <h1>Ben Hutchings</h1>
+  <ul>
     <li>
       Professional software developer since 1998
     </li>
@@ -74,7 +73,7 @@
     </li>
     <li>
       Debian kernel contributor since 2008; uploader since 2009
-      <ul class="incremental">
+      <ul>
 	<li>
 	  Initially trying to deal with the non-free firmware issue
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+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Max Attems</h1>
+  <ul>
+    <li>TODO</li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
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   <h1>Linux kernel</h1>
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-  <h1>Linux release model (1)</h1>
-  <p>
-    The old model:
-  </p>
-  <ul class="incremental">
-    <li>
-      Each stable release had even second component.  Bug fixes and
-      minor features in stable releases with third component
-      incremented (e.g. 2.4.27)
-    </li>
-    <li>
-      Major development done separately, resulting in series of
-      unstable releases with odd second component (e.g. 2.5.50)
-    </li>
-    <li>
-      After a year or two, development resulted in a new stable
-      release
-    </li>
-    <li>
-      Problem: users waited years for new features, and then got many
-      more changes all at once.  Particularly bad in the 2.4-2.6
-      transition.
-    </li>
-  </ul>
-</div>
-
-<div class="slide">
-  <h1>Linux release model (2)</h1>
+  <h1>Linux release model</h1>
   <p>
-    The new model:
+    Since ~2004:
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     <li>
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       </ul>
     </li>
     <li>
-      Each 2.6.<var>x</var> release has stable update branch; releases
-      numbered 2.6.<var>x</var>.<var>y</var>
+      Each 2.6.<var>x</var> and 3.<var>x</var> release has a stable
+      update branch; releases numbered 2.6.<var>x</var>.<var>y</var>
+      and 3.<var>x</var>.<var>y</var>
       <ul class="incremental">
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 	  Usually closed shortly after next stable release, but may
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       </ul>
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-    <li>
-      Linux 3.0 doesn't change this, except that <var>x</var> is now
-      the second component and <var>y</var> is the third
-    </li>
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     <li>
       Currently 5 general maintainers: Maximilian Attems, Bastian
-      Blank, dann frazier, Moritz Muehlenhoff and me
+      Blank, dann frazier, Ben Hutchings, Moritz Muehlenhoff
     </li>
     <li>
       Many more specialised contributors:
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+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Extra features</h1>
+  <p>
+    Always aim to get patches merged upstream.  But many big features
+    that users want added are <em>not</em> merged upstream for a long
+    time.  Kernel team expects features to be upstream first, then
+    backported.
+  </p>
+  <p class="incremental">
+    But there have been exceptions:
+  </p>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      OpenVZ and VServer - mostly reimplemented with cgroups and
+      namespaces
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Xen - now upstream; Linux 3.0 is a useful dom0 kernel!
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      aufs - needed for Debian Live
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      PREEMPT_RT - gradually being merged upstream; new option in
+      amd64 packages
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
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   <h1>Out-of-tree modules</h1>
   <p>
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     </li>
     <li>
       Also collected in linux-firmware.git repository maintained by
-      David Woodhouse and myself
+      David Woodhouse and Ben Hutchings
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+	<li>Modified by Ben to add Debian open-ND logo</li>
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