Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:11:11 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Too soon for stable release? |
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:01:04AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > The news media hasn't picked up on this yet, they seem to think that > 2.6.0 is something that will be useful. It won't be, there will be a > period of months during which things stablize and then you'll see the > distros pick up the release. I don't remember where it was exactly > (2.4.18?) but Red Hat waited quite a while before switching to 2.4 > from 2.2. This is normal and it works out quite well in practice.
Red Hat did a 2.4.2 release which was 2.4.2 + a lot of stability changes. IIRC, RH7.x was based on 2.4.7, with updates to 2.4.9, 2.4.18 and finally 2.4.20-based kernels. However, I also seem to remember each of these had a fair number of patches applied.
I'm sure Arjan will correct me if I got the above wrong.
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