luis jure wrote: > thanks neil, mark and daniel for your comments, the different alternatives > are much more clear to me now. > > re kernel 2.6.12, what's its current status? visiting www.kernel.org i found > 2.6.12 (17-Jun-2005) and 2.6.12.1 (22-Jun-2005). i really don't get this 4 > numbers thing in 2.6...
2.6.12 is the 'main' release. A week later, two security issues come up. 2.6.12.1 is released with fixes for these issues *only* (i.e. very little difference from 2.6.12.2). Whereas 2.6.12 is made by Linus Torbalds, the followup 2.6.12.1 and 2.6.12.2 releases are made by seperate people who call it the "linux-stable" branch. This branch only includes critical bug fixes and security fixes. If you use gentoo-sources we automatically keep up with the linux-stable branch. For 2.6.12 you'll have to go into the testing (~arch) branch of portage though (I'm using the word "branch" in a totally different context here), read the Gentoo handbook if you are unsure. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
