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New kernels and old distributionsNew kernels and old distributionsPosted Aug 3, 2006 11:19 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)Parent article: New kernels and old distributions
"How long should the community have to care about a distro after the creators of it have abandoned it?"
I'm amazed the lwn editors let this FUD pass - Fedora Core 3 is not an "abandonned" distro, it's still supported by the Fedora Legacy project, and will probably be till Fedora Core 7 Test 2 is released
"New kernels would always come with a version of udev that worked, and some of these compatibility problems would go away"
That would make multibooting between old safe kernels and new experimental ones incredibly difficult.
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New kernels and old distributions Posted Aug 3, 2006 14:52 UTC (Thu) by incase (subscriber, #37115) [Link] >> "New kernels would always come with a version of udev that worked, and>> some of these compatibility problems would go away"
> That would make multibooting between old safe kernels and new experimental
Why? udev could use a versioned main part, i.e. the "udev" script would call some /lib/udev/`uname -r`/udev-main script/binary. I don't see much of a problem there.
However, in one sense, you are right: This would only work for future kernels. Booting - for example - 2.6.8 like this won't work because there won't be any /lib/udev/2.6.8/udev-main to accompany it. Unless someone created some sort of 'backport' to achieve that.
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