On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:30:17AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > When Kernel 2.6.8 was recently released, a story on slashdot said there > will not be a 2.7 series, experimentation will continue in the 2.6 > series and it will be up to distributions to stabilize the kernel. > > The story said you might want to actually hold off installing 2.6.8 > because this is the first kernel since that decision was made. Has any > stabilization been done to the debian kernel-source-2.6.8 package?
From what I've heard, Linus is now doing something kinda like Debian testing/unstable. New patches are submitted to a special area called the -mm tree. You can build/use kernels from the -mm tree, and even send bug reports. Once a patch has proved it's worth, it is moved into the mainline kernels. So, the story was half right - they won't have a development branch, but the mainline will still be treated as stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
