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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:27:16AM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Also need to think about how well any scheme align's with what distro's
> need to support releases. Like the "Adopt-a-Highway" program in
> California to pickup trash along highways, I'm wondering if distros
> would be willing/interested in adopting a particular release
> and maintain it in bk.  e.g. SuSE clearly has interest in some sort
> of 2.6.5.n series for SLES9. ditto for RHEL4 (but for 2.6.9.n).

Unfortunately the SLES9 kernels don't really look anything like 2.6.5
except from the version number.  There's far too much trash from Business
Partners in there.