Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:04:37 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Am??rico Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.27 will be a longtime supported kernel
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:10:54PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:37:05PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > If the question is why it isn't .26 or .28:
> > 
> > I'm checking whether my computer works fine with a kernel, and also 
> > very slightly what distributions might use a kernel, but in the end
> > it's pretty random.
> 
> So any distributions using .27 by the looks of it?  It looks like Debian
> is going with .26 for the 5.0 release, so if nothing else they will have
> to be maintaining that one for quite a while.  I suppose having someone
> maintain .27 makes sense in that case.

Fedora, Ubuntu, and openSUSE are going to be based on .27 from what I
can tell.

thanks,

greg k-h
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