Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Reviving the concept of a stable series | Date | Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:50:25 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org> said: > L A Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org> writes: > > If you have a better way of creating a stable series of kernels > > coming off kernel.org, I'm not attached to any specific method of > > "how".
> One option would be a "Linux Legacy" project, similar to the Fedora > Legacy project that backports updates to old Red Hat/Fedora Core > releases: a central service that'd collect bug fixes for released > kernels that distributors could then base their kernels on. That way, > we'd get the stability advantages of vendor kernels without needing to > repeat the effort for each distribution.
Didn't happen with 2.0, 2.2, or 2.4. I'd guess it won't happen for 2.6 either.
> Maybe some of the distribution vendors might be interested in setting > up something like this?
I have seen absolutely no interest from distributions in leaving the current 2.6 development model. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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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