A long-term kernel support update

Greg Kroah-Hartman has posted an update on his plans for long-term kernel maintenance. As he announced before, the 3.1 series is almost at the end of its update period; he is also approaching the end of his maintenance for the long-lived 2.6.32 release. "It is approaching it's end-of-life, and I think I only have another month or so doing releases of this. After I am finished with it, it might be picked up by someone else, but I'm not going to promise anything." As it happens, Tim Gardner has stated that Ubuntu will support 2.6.32 through April 2015 - though whether that support will translate into kernel releases outside of the Ubuntu distribution is not clear. Ubuntu also plans to take on 3.2 as a long-term supported kernel.

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