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Jaunty not even getting security updates.

Jaunty not even getting security updates.

Posted Nov 22, 2010 18:55 UTC (Mon) by jrn (subscriber, #64214)
In reply to: Jaunty not even getting security updates. by NAR
Parent article: Kernel prepatch 2.6.37-rc3

In general, it is very useful to be able to try a new kernel on old userspace when tracking down kernel bugs. See http://lwn.net/Articles/377953/ for an example (probably not the best one) of when this was broken.


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Jaunty not even getting security updates.

Posted Nov 22, 2010 21:44 UTC (Mon) by jrn (subscriber, #64214) [Link]

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