On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 01:30:52PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Greg KH
wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 05:49:56PM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
As some 2.6.27.stable support is done by the outside still (not Greg, but someone else), the critical things at least should be able to get picked up.
Note, those .27-longterm kernel releases will be much more infrequent than I was doing (if that could be possible), so anyone wishing to run an "enterprise" distro on .27 will have to be responsible for keeping up with the security issues on their own as they will end up being more frequent than the .27-longterm releases will be.
good luck,
greg k-h
I didn't realize SLES made major kernel version updates like that.
This was one of the first times in a long time it did (we did it a long time ago in 2.4 days as well.)
Am I right in understanding Redhat keeps the same basic kernel for the full LTS period? (ie. Aren't they planning to support 2.6.18 in Redhat 5 for a few more years?)
I don't know, why not ask them?
Timely security updates for the LTS kernel seems critical to me. (ie. If I don't need security updates, I can just leave any old openSUSE release in place for years.)
Is any LTS distro supporting 2.6.27 (opensuse 11.1) or 2.6.31 (opensuse 11.2) for the long-term?
Not that I know of. All of the major "enterprise" distros agreed to pick the .32 kernel to base their products on, and did so (RHEL6, SLE11SP1, Debian, Ubuntu LTS, Oracle Unbreakable Linux, etc.) to try to reduce the ammount of churn and support they had to individually do, and instead, place it all on me :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org