MontaVista Director of Strategic Marketing Bill Weinberg says his company will wait for a stable 2.6 kernel from Linus Torvalds before releasing its first 2.6-based distribution, but that MontaVista's current offerings include “the same thing” as parts of 2.6, according to an article in the SD Times.

Weinberg expects the stable release to happen “by the end of the year,” with a MontaVista 2.6-based release sometime in 2004. MontaVista's pre-emptible Linux patch, which was merged into the 2.5 tree for inclusion in 2.6, has been back-ported to the 2.4-series kernel in MontaVista's current products, notes Weinberg in the SD Times story.

The article also quotes Bob Morris, vice president of sales and marketing at LynuxWorks, on the benefits of standardizing Linux development using official releases rather than relying on proprietary patches. LynuxWorks released a 2.6-based version of BlueCat Linux on Sep. 8 of this year.

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