Lots of stable kernel updates
Posted Oct 7, 2012 18:14 UTC (Sun)
by linuxjacques (subscriber, #45768)
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What are the LTS kernels again?
3.6 was just released and 3.5 support is ending?
That just seems wrong.
Posted Oct 7, 2012 18:37 UTC (Sun)
by corbet (editor, #1)
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Posted Oct 7, 2012 20:45 UTC (Sun)
by linuxjacques (subscriber, #45768)
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OK thanks.
I believe kernel.org used to note the LTS kernels but I don't see it anymore.
Posted Oct 7, 2012 20:51 UTC (Sun)
by Jonno (subscriber, #49613)
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Usually that means that the last 3.n.x stable release are made simultaneously with 3.(n+1).1, though sometime it is made between 3.(n+1) and 3.(n+1).1, and sometimes it is made simultaneously with 3.(n+1).2.
Posted Oct 8, 2012 8:24 UTC (Mon)
by freggy (guest, #37477)
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Posted Oct 8, 2012 2:31 UTC (Mon)
by theophrastus (guest, #80847)
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So i'm not in some stream which includes/receives "stable" releases, apparently [shrug]
However, given the Wikipedia excerpt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Version_numbering):
thankee!
Posted Oct 8, 2012 2:37 UTC (Mon)
by dlang (guest, #313)
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a 'stable' release is security and bugfix, so it's two ways of saying the same thing
so 3.6 is released, 3.6.x are bugifx updates to 3.6, all new development is headed for 3.7
normally, around the time that 3.7.1 is released, all support will cease for 3.6.x
"Long Term Support" kernels are ones where someone has decided to support them for a longer timeframe. Currently 3.0.x and 3.4.x are in this category. There is no firm timeframe for when support for these will cease.
Posted Oct 8, 2012 6:04 UTC (Mon)
by istenrot (subscriber, #69564)
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You probably have already cloned Linus' tree:
Next add Greg's stable tree:
Start tracking Greg's stable 3.6 releases:
Use git describe, to verify you have 3.6.1 sources.
Do git remote update && git pull, whenever you want to refresh your cloned repos.
Posted Oct 8, 2012 16:01 UTC (Mon)
by theophrastus (guest, #80847)
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Posted Oct 8, 2012 22:03 UTC (Mon)
by brianomahoney (guest, #6206)
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MFG, omb
Lots of stable kernel updates
The longterm kernels currently are 3.0 and 3.4. The 3.5 kernel, instead, is on the usual cycle - supported roughly through the release of 3.n+1-rc1.
Long-term support
Long-term support
Long-term support
Actually, non-longterm 3.n series are guaranteed to get at least one stable release after 3.(n+1) final has been released. This so that if anyone else wants to continue to maintain it (like your distro maintainer), they only have to slug through the stable updates of later kernels to find patches to backport.
Long-term support
Lots of stable kernel updates
VERSION = 3
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 0
EXTRAVERSION =
NAME = Terrified Chipmunk
/---
On 29 May 2011, Linus Torvalds announced that the kernel version would be bumped to 3.0 for the release following 2.6.39, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Linux. It continued the time-based release practice introduced with 2.6.0, but using the second number...i.e. 3.1 would follow 3.0 after a few months. An additional number (now the third number) would be added on when necessary to designate security and bug fixes, as for example with 3.0.18.
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Is there any reason to understand that 3.6.1 is a "stable release" (as opposed to a "security and bug fix")?
Lots of stable kernel updates
Lots of stable kernel updates
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
git remote add stable git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
git remote update
git checkout -b stable-3.6 stable/linux-3.6.y
Lots of stable kernel updates
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