On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 01:35:53PM -0500, William Harrington wrote: > > I guess since 2.6 it did change from how it was before then, since new > feature development now takes place in the same revision number. > Yes, 2.5 was very unpleasant. The "rule" now is "no regressions" - obviously, there are occasional exceptions, and other cases where nobody noticed - so, the more people who run a current kernel, the sooner regressions will be noticed.
> 3.2 has up to release 63 , EOL 14 September 2014 I thought this was still being maintained, but it is so old that nobody using LFS is likely to care. > 3.4 has up to release 104, EOL 25 September 2014 (Or possibly in October 2014) Still maintained, with a new maintainer. But again, too old for LFS users to care about. > 3.10 has up to release 55, 17 September 2014 slated EOL September 2015 > 3.12 has up to release 28, 7 September 2014 till 2016 > 3.14 has up to release 19, 17 September 2014 till August 2016 So, anybody who now wants a stable kernel (e.g. for a server where they do not intend to frequently update kernels) should probably be using 3.14. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
