2008-12-29 13:42:24

by Igor Podlesny

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Subject: > There are actually more stable versions available but they are not advertised

2008/12/29 Éric Piel <[email protected]>:> Igor Podlesny schreef:>> Actually that's either a mistake or I don't know what you guys call "a>> stable version".> [removing all the part which needs bug report numbers]>> I agree with you that the website is not very clear for someone not> accustomed to the Linux kernel development. There are actually more> stable versions available but they are not advertised. Maybe there> should be more trees displayed, something like this:> The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.28> The previous stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.27.10> The latest longtime version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.16.62
Well, I'd call those versions stable if there were ongoing bugfixes(if affected) backporting to it. Otherwise these are rather "outdated"versions.
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2008-12-29 13:49:37

by Éric Piel

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Subject: Re: > There are actually more stable versions available but they are not advertised

Igor Podlesny schreef:
> 2008/12/29 Éric Piel <[email protected]>:
>> Igor Podlesny schreef:
>>> Actually that's either a mistake or I don't know what you guys call "a
>>> stable version".
>> [removing all the part which needs bug report numbers]
>>
>> I agree with you that the website is not very clear for someone not
>> accustomed to the Linux kernel development. There are actually more
>> stable versions available but they are not advertised. Maybe there
>> should be more trees displayed, something like this:
>> The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.28
>> The previous stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.27.10
>> The latest longtime version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.16.62
>
> Well, I'd call those versions stable if there were ongoing bugfixes
> (if affected) backporting to it. Otherwise these are rather "outdated"
> versions.
That's _exactly_ what those trees are about: backporting bugfixes.
Let's call them stable then ;-)

Eric

2008-12-29 14:03:25

by Igor Podlesny

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Subject: Re: > There are actually more stable versions available but they are not advertised

2008/12/29 Éric Piel <[email protected]>:[...]>>> The latest longtime version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.16.62>>>> Well, I'd call those versions stable if there were ongoing bugfixes>> (if affected) backporting to it. Otherwise these are rather "outdated">> versions.> That's _exactly_ what those trees are about: backporting bugfixes.> Let's call them stable then ;-)
:-)
According to http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.62the last commit to this version was made at Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:48:10+0300. Looks like it's really stable ;-)
BTW, several distros keep patching 2.6.18, that's a bit fresher; butanyway, there's a valuable gap between that stable and kernel.org'sadvertised one.
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