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Long-term support and backport risk

Long-term support and backport risk

Posted Jun 21, 2007 4:30 UTC (Thu) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
In reply to: Long-term support and backport risk by dlang
Parent article: Long-term support and backport risk

so distros ship a 3 months old kernel, not the brand spanking latest. that's new enough to have all the hardware, but proven enough to know if it's good or not, and if not, how much it needs fixing.


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