What does it take to fork the kernel?

[Chris Brannon]

Bill Cox wrote:
> To date, Vinux is primarily a platform that talks, and comes
> with speakup using espeak by default, so I guess there's not much
> advantage to a custom kernel (whew!).

A custom kernel is only advantageous with hardware speech, IMHO.

> The problem with building a Debian package for each new kernel Ubuntu
> ships is that users will find that speakup stops talking after random
> upgrades.

Can't you control that with your package manager?  E.G., with Speakup
having a dependency on a certain range of kernel versions?

-- Chris