Frozen kernels

Frozen kernels

Posted Mar 9, 2005 20:09 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Is the kernel development process broken? by pm101
Parent article: Is the kernel development process broken?

I'd much rather if they periodically 'froze' some 2.6 version, so we'd get 2.6.10.x, and that'd be updated until it, and a replacement version, reached stability

That is just what major distribution makers do. They pick some kernel as baseline (presumably after evaluating it for stability) and keep patching it until the next revision of the distro is released, and even after that in distributions (like RHEL) that have a long supported lifetime.

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