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DateTue, 14 Oct 2008 17:03:00 -0600
From"Chris Friesen" <>
SubjectRe: [stable] Linux 2.6.27 will be a longtime supported kernel
Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:10:54PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:37:05PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>
>>>If the question is why it isn't .26 or .28:
>>>
>>>I'm checking whether my computer works fine with a kernel, and also 
>>>very slightly what distributions might use a kernel, but in the end
>>>it's pretty random.
>>
>>So any distributions using .27 by the looks of it?  It looks like Debian
>>is going with .26 for the 5.0 release, so if nothing else they will have
>>to be maintaining that one for quite a while.  I suppose having someone
>>maintain .27 makes sense in that case.
> 
> 
> Fedora, Ubuntu, and openSUSE are going to be based on .27 from what I
> can tell.

According to distrowatch, Mandriva and Gentoo as well.

Chris


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