Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Dec 2005 12:08:20 -0800 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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Arjan, responding to Matthias > > SUSE end-user distros (SUSE LINUX <version>) are released every 6 months > > or so, and are supported for 24 months. Their "enterprise server" is > > supported for 60 months though, SLES 9 forked off 9.1. > > sure.. but they don't add new hw support really, and I'd not be > surprised if they rebase to a newer upstream kernel after a while.
They will start a new enterprise release, off a new base, every so often, and call the next one SLES 10. But SLES 9 will continue to be supported, off its current kernel.org base, for an extended period of time.
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