Messages in this thread | | | From | Florian Weimer <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:19:29 +0100 |
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* Greg KH:
>> Yes but not home users with relatively new/bleeding edge hardware or >> small projects writing for example a wifi driver or a security patch >> or whatever without full time commitment to tracking kernel changes. > > If you are a user that wants this kind of support, then use a distro > that can handle this. Obvious examples that come to mind are both > Debian and Gentoo and Fedora and OpenSuSE, and I'm sure there are > others.
IIRC, Gentoo ignores some kinds of security bugs so that the task remains manageable. Debian, in contrast, hasn't released a kernel update for its stable distribution since June (but unstable and even testing is in surprisingly good shape).
Maybe the real vendor kernels are better. Without CVE-based bug tracking on their part, it is hard to tell, though. 8-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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