Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:25:21 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Thomas Voegtle <> | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.27.28 |
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Hi,
first of all: thank you for the stable kernels...
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:49:53AM +0200, Éric Piel wrote: >> Currently, there is no clue on www.kernel.org that 2.6.27 is a "long >> term stable" kernel tree. Would it be possible to add a line to the page >> pointing to the latest version of this type of tree? I'm sure some >> people would love discovering that such thing exists :-) > > I'm curious as to why someone, if they were inclined to be using such a > thing, wouldn't already know about this?
It even isn't called at linux-kernel-announce, except the latest stable kernel. So you have to read LKML, or follow the lwn.net news to track the older stable kernel. Or always guessing: when there is a release of the newer stable kernel (this is announced in linux-kernel-announce) then there might be a release of the older one aswell...
> How many people really are relying on this .27 branch, becides the > distros, these days? And if you are, why?
I'm one of that guys, having a server and one firewall and feeling much better with a small optimized own-built kernel for that machines. And both just work with this .27 branch, why should I change it to 2.6.30.y? I don't need any of the new features and it won't be faster with 2.6.30 or something else...
Thomas
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