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From: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Geoffrey Said <geoffrey@2x.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: Long maintenance kernel versions.
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:36:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100924053648.GA5453@cr0.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinGJmAzdd=HOKZYSh69F6T9HMznOKW5BS90=Q-4@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:10:09AM +0200, Geoffrey Said wrote:
>To whom it may concern.
>
>I would like to put forward the following questions.  Hope that I am
>not making a fool of myself!
>
>How is the procedure by which a certain kernel version is declared as
>a long maintenance version?


This mainly depends on how many major Linux distributions rely on
that version of kernel, AFAIK.

>Is the version decided before or after the release of the stable kernel?

After.

>And where can I check for planned long term maintenance versions?
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel


  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-24  5:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-24  5:10 Geoffrey Said
2010-09-24  5:36 ` Américo Wang [this message]
2010-09-24  5:42   ` Geoffrey Said
2010-09-24  8:54     ` el es
2010-09-24  9:29     ` Américo Wang
2010-09-24 13:19 ` Greg KH
2010-09-24 13:30   ` Geoffrey Said
2010-09-24 13:48     ` Greg KH

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