Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755680AbYL2ODZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:03:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753539AbYL2ODO (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:03:14 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f21.google.com ([209.85.218.21]:37241 "EHLO mail-bw0-f21.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753655AbYL2ODN (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:03:13 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=r/RDIwC6075cBoEtyyMFcV65Yk1yJnt3rza/QBzUgXR4eGs/wdm8xfmI4jOPbZou9u mRX9EM5o1r/m0f47U94hXy8Nro/8vqZL2H2hVeAbaVNSFfO9lLnohmxrTYIJHVn5WFv8 +goeM8J5L//tLFW0TERJ4B2Fcqmtt4kEOxEvg= Message-ID: <43d009740812290603s5d4b4ef1idec88bccfda7b965@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:03:10 +0700 From: "Igor Podlesny" Reply-To: for.poige+linux@gmail.com To: "=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=89ric_Piel?=" Subject: Re: > There are actually more stable versions available but they are not advertised Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4958D563.30805@tremplin-utc.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline References: <43d009740812290542p3e54b90avea7ccc27ec432656@mail.gmail.com> <4958D563.30805@tremplin-utc.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 78e6330dbc4c6ca9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by alpha id mBTE3qki029926 Content-Length: 926 Lines: 5 2008/12/29 Éric Piel :[...]>>> 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 Otherwise these are rather "outdated"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. -- End of message. Next message?????{.n?+???????+%?????ݶ??w??{.n?+????{??G?????{ay?ʇڙ?,j??f???h?????????z_??(?階?ݢj"???m??????G????????????&???~???iO???z??v?^?m???? ????????I?