Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.27 will be a longtime supported kernel

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:03:00PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:10:54PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:37:05PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>>
>>>> If the question is why it isn't .26 or .28:
>>>>
>>>> I'm checking whether my computer works fine with a kernel, and also very 
>>>> slightly what distributions might use a kernel, but in the end
>>>> it's pretty random.
>>>
>>> So any distributions using .27 by the looks of it?  It looks like Debian
>>> is going with .26 for the 5.0 release, so if nothing else they will have
>>> to be maintaining that one for quite a while.  I suppose having someone
>>> maintain .27 makes sense in that case.
>> Fedora, Ubuntu, and openSUSE are going to be based on .27 from what I
>> can tell.
>
> According to distrowatch, Mandriva and Gentoo as well.

Gentoo always uses whatever is released, once .28 is out, it will switch
to that after a short while :)

thanks,

greg k-h