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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: 3 years since last 2.2 release, why still on kernel.org main page?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:41:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705141341.48827.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4647A5DB.2070205@tmr.com>

On Sunday 13 May 2007 7:57 pm, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, since 2.2 hasn't had a release in 3 years, and the last 
> > prepatch was 2 years ago, why is its' status still on the kernel.org main 
> > page?
> > 
> > Not exactly something people are checking the status of on a daily 
basis...
> > 
> > Just wondering...
> > 
> I assume because it's a handy place to the the current 2.2 kernel, which 
> some people run for reasons which are valid to them.

*shrug*  I understand that people still run it, and I'm not saying they 
shouldn't.

My question was more along the lines of "is there anybody who's still running 
it who doesn't know where to find it?", and "why have a status tracker on the 
main page for something that hasn't changed in years?"

Rob

      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-14 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-11  3:34 3 years since last 2.2 release, why still on kernel.org main page? Rob Landley
2007-05-13 23:57 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-05-14 17:41   ` Rob Landley [this message]

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