Rob van der Heij wrote:
On 10/24/07, Clark, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How do those versions map back to the statement "Kernel 2.6.23?"
Basically "consumer Linux" and "Enterprise Linux" are different beasts
and don't compare like that.
The distributors get paid a.o. for porting selected fixes back to
stable releases in a more reliable way. So when people talk about
something addressed in 2.6.xx it normally means the consumer version.
Without looking at the fact in detail, you cannot tell at which level
your distributer makes that fix available.
Not exactly. 2.6.xx.y are the official Linus (kernel.org) releases.
The distributors (RH, S, Debian at al) choose a version for their stable
releases, generally the latest at the time, and test it with the other
software they propose to include in their stable release.
For Debian's Sarge it was 2.6.8 - the .y bit hadn't been invented back
then. Nahant's was 2.6.9, SLES9 was 2.6.5.
Some vendors may port new features back to their stable kernel, others
(eg Debian) do not, but they do not change the 2.6.xx part.
Following previous practive, Linus and his cohorts would have had a 2.7
series, but elected not to do that; vendors were expending considerable
effort in backporting parts from development to their stable kernel
anywhere, and at the time that they announced there would not be a 2.7
series for the forseeable future, and instead there would be a .y
component to kernel numbers, reflecting (I think) fixes and not new
features.
As the .xx part increases, there are significant new features.
Debian Testing and the Fedora Project quite cheerfully follow the
official releases, one hopes with some care:-) I presume the opensuse
project does too, but I've not taken so much notice of it.
Presumably Alan will step in if I have a material error here:-)
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Cheers
John
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