Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753551AbYJOC4c (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:56:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751486AbYJOC4X (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:56:23 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:59786 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751093AbYJOC4X (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:56:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:27:40 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Chris Friesen 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 Message-ID: <20081015022740.GA28960@kroah.com> 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> <48F52524.4000903@nortel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48F52524.4000903@nortel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1235 Lines: 31 On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:03:00PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > 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. Gentoo always uses whatever is released, once .28 is out, it will switch to that after a short while :) thanks, greg k-h -- 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/