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KS2007: The distributor panel

KS2007: The distributor panel

Posted Sep 6, 2007 9:29 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
Parent article: KS2007: The distributor panel

>and the releases which result from that backporting work have as much change as an updated kernel would.

I have to add that backporting is also a risky task. Remember the RH-NPTL noise..

>What is really needed, says Ingo Molnar, is some sort of metrics on how much testing of kernels is really happening.

Andrea Arcangeli wrote klive /just/ for that. A pity the number of users is a bit low.


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