Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.27 will be a longtime supported kernel

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Oct 14 2008 - 17:08:15 EST


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.

thanks,

greg k-h
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