Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel | Date | Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:03:57 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 04:24:36PM +0100, M. wrote:
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> > yeah but I would mean if there's a 6months release cycle like GNOME & co. > > there would be more opportunities in different distros using the same > > kernel like those distros do with GNOME & co. If they use the same > > 'current' 6months kernel available in the 18/24 time window this will > > lead to unified base kernel for every distro and those distro could > > mantain it for years
> The kernel is unlike GNOME in so many different ways, there's just no > way to compare their development cycles.
Gnome is a /collection/ of (mostly independent) programs, after a while what program+version survives a stress test is decreed to be part of version N + 1 to be released at the 6-month point; lather, rinse, repeat. In that sense it is much more like a distribution (which also have similar release cycles). The kernel is /one/ program, and large and complex to boot.
> People remember, the kernel evolves organically. We don't know what's > going to be in the next 2 kernel releases just because we don't know > what's going to show up, and what hardware is going to be released, and > what kind of problems people are going to have, and what kind of > proposed patches are going to work out. -- 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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