What are love-sources?

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Duck-Billed Platypus · Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:55 am

What are love-sources? This is as far as I know...

sourceforge.net wrote:Love-Sources is a highly tuned experimental desktop kernel.

How different are they from gentoo-sources, etc.? Why are they called love-sources? Is an ebuild available for it? Or am I just thinking of it in the wrong way?

shm · Post by **shm** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:06 am

It's named after Lovechild, who was the original author if it. Its is much more experimental than gentoo-sources, which tends to only add very production-ready patches.

frippz · Post by **frippz** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:13 am

Really now... Gentoo sources aren't even in the same bracket as love-sources if you ask me. It's more likely to be found somewhere around the mm-sources territory, so to speak.

Kezza · Post by **Kezza** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:14 am

...and some of the Gentoo developers seem to have got their knickers in a twist over them:

ciaranm wrote:love sources is a horridly buggy piece of cowboy-code trash that causes no end of problems.

joem · Post by **joem** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:20 am

join #love-sources on freenode or check them out here

http://www.linuxmall.us/~lovepatch/love-sources/

blaksaga · Post by **blaksaga** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:46 am

My girlfriend is a lovesource.

Herodot · Post by **Herodot** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:47 pm

blaksaga wrote:My girlfriend is a lovesource.

Is there a public CVS?

neenee · Post by **neenee** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:01 pm

Lovechild wrote:Love-sources was mainly meant to get a good 2.6 kernel for
the desktop. we ship runtime selectable IO schedulers, the Nick
Piggin Scheduler Policy patch and a few other goodies - it's
based on the -mm kernel so it has all the goodies Andrew is
shipping as well as any patches flowing around on lkml right
after an -mm release to handle compile problems, etc.

also, the latest versions have the latest alsa version and
the vesa_fb hack for higher refresh rates when using the
framebuffer device with an nvidia card, as well as reiser4,
sometimes the evil supermount and more..

why not give it a whirl? it might be love at first site

Yen · Post by **Yen** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:15 pm

Love-sources is the best kernel patchset i've ever used

ebrostig · Post by **ebrostig** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:03 pm

It's a YAK, Yet Another Kernel.

Erik

frippz · Post by **frippz** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:18 pm

Not that I condone the use of love-sources, but aren't all kernels YAK?
Except maybe vanilla...

homeobocks · Post by **homeobocks** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:22 pm

Love-sources is very aggressive (and experimental) in memory management (read: IT ROCKS!).

dalu · Post by **dalu** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:35 am

Herodot wrote:
blaksaga wrote:My girlfriend is a lovesource.
Is there a public CVS?

hehehe

Gibberx · Post by **Gibberx** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:58 am

Herodot wrote:
blaksaga wrote:My girlfriend is a lovesource.
Is there a public CVS?

perhaps your mom...

Brother Dysk · Post by **Brother Dysk** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:02 am

Can jokes get any more lame? I think that was beyond being a paralpalegic joke - straight into totally paralysed vegetable!

homeobocks · Post by **homeobocks** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:48 am

Herodot wrote:
blaksaga wrote:My girlfriend is a lovesource.
Is there a public CVS?

Spelling error: should be "pubic CVS."

senectus · Post by **senectus** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:11 pm

it uses "supermount"

I still have no idea why this is supposed to be bad

Jefklak · Post by **Jefklak** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:42 pm

Too much patches and stuff wich makes it unstable?

steel300 · Post by **steel300** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 2:22 pm

Jefklak wrote:Too much patches and stuff wich makes it unstable?

It's not too many patches that make it unstable. It's the patches that actually make it into love-sources that are ustable. Love-sources includes patches that need a testing ground and can't find it anywhere else. Because they aren't as developed as the mainstream kernel, they wil be slightly unstable.