Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754556AbYJNXEE (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:04:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752542AbYJNXDy (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:03:54 -0400 Received: from zrtps0kn.nortel.com ([47.140.192.55]:47874 "EHLO zrtps0kn.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752465AbYJNXDx (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:03:53 -0400 Message-ID: <48F52524.4000903@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:03:00 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Lennart Sorensen , Adrian Bunk , Am??rico Wang , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.27 will be a longtime supported kernel References: <20081011210340.GA11198@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20081013112701.GA12706@hack.voiplan.pt> <20081013123705.GF29938@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20081014201054.GD22851@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20081014210437.GA17338@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20081014210437.GA17338@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Oct 2008 23:03:04.0936 (UTC) FILETIME=[03E55680:01C92E51] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1035 Lines: 28 Greg KH wrote: > 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. According to distrowatch, Mandriva and Gentoo as well. Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/