Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:27:40 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.27 will be a longtime supported kernel |
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:03:00PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > 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.
Gentoo always uses whatever is released, once .28 is out, it will switch to that after a short while :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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