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Alter the pace of "mainline"
Alter the pace of "mainline"
Posted Mar 9, 2005 18:49 UTC (Wed) by shredwheat (subscriber, #4188)Parent article: Is the kernel development process broken?
I wonder how this will effect development of the "mainline" 2.6.x releases if developers know there is now a safety net in 2.6.x.y. Will this support bigger destabilizing patches? I am suspecting the 2.6.x's will move to longer term releases and we'll be moving in the direction we already are.
As a casual user I've been pleased with the 2.6 releases, although I have hidden behind the shield of Debian and Ubuntu 2.6 kernels.
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Alter the pace of "mainline"
Posted Mar 9, 2005 23:27 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]
If you're running Debian or Ubuntu kernels, you are running patched versions of somewhat older kernel.org kernels.