It looks like we will publish a preliminary kernel set for testing tomorrow or on Monday.
One more question to me:
How fast (or however) will the SuSE-Patches gets into the vanilla-kernel from Linus Torwalds ?
2.4 is maintained by Marcelo Tosatti, not Linus. We can't tell how long this takes in a general fashion, because some features that the SuSE kernel has will never show up in the upstream (licensing comes into play...). Also, I can think of changes that are not wanted in the mainstream kernel because they change the behaviour too much. Example: The discussion about the vm subsystem in 2.4.14 (or a similar timeframe) when the entire VM was exchanged, basically from SuSE sources. We have had that for some weeks, and after it has proven to be stable not only for SuSE products, but also for the rest of the world, it was accepted. Roman.