Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs)

Ville Herva
2004-07-23T06:31:51Z

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:22:10PM -0700, you [Tim Wright] wrote:
> >
> > How do such end users get security updates?
>
> From the middleman. That's no different to users of any distros today.
> The distros apply security fixes and make updated kernels available on a
> regular basis.

One idea might be to fork off "stable" 2.6.x.y (2.6.15.1 for example)
branches every now and them. Analogous to vendor kernels, but maintained by
someone@kernel.org. Compared to the 2.6.x.0 in question, these would only
get security fixes and important bug fixes. The maintainer would need to
pick a suitable (stable) 2.6.x.0 as basis every once in an appropriate
while.

I don't know if that's feasible. Just an idea.

Anyway, as (one kind of) end user, I do welcome the new development model.
I'll get the newest features in manageable manner, and if I don't fancy that
I can resort to vendor (Fedora) kernels.

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