Greg KH: The 2.6.32 Linux kernel
Greg KH: The 2.6.32 Linux kernel
Greg Kroah-Hartman discusses the
history of the 2.6.32 stable kernel series and why he has stopped
supporting it. "With the 2.6.32 kernel being the base of these
longterm enterprise distros, it was originally guessed that it would be
hanging around for many many years to come. But, my old argument about how
moving a kernel forward for an enterprise distro finally sunk in for 2 of
the 3 major players. Both Oracle Linux and SLES 11, in their latest
releases these few months, have moved to the 3.0 kernel as the base of
them, despite leaving almost all other parts of the distro alone. They did
this to take advantage of the better support for hardware, newer features,
newer filesystems, and the hundreds of thousands of different changes that
has happened in the kernel.org releases since way back in 2009.
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