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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Vendor kernels unpakced
Joseph Andrew Knapka <jknapka@earthlink.net> said:
[...]
> Except that many are enhancements to support future functionality,
> or refectoring of working code in order to improve maintainability,
> or complete rewrites of major, working kernel subsystems (eg VM
> changes 2.2-->2.4). Frequently the bugs that are fixed in a minor
> release are ones that are only triggered by uncommon kernel or
> hardware configurations. While quality control of the Linux kernel
> is generally quite good, it's not unheard of for such improvements
> to break the kernel for some subset of users.
We are talking on maintainig the _latest_ kernel of a series of
distributions, i.e. the last kernel from RH 5.x, RH 6.x, RH 7.x. It makes
little sense to run anything RH 6.x before 6.2 today, and then you should
be running the latest kernel from updates, not the one on the distribution
CDs.
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