[ubuntu-uk] kernels and releases

[Alec Wright]

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:09 +0100, luxxius wrote:
> After a Dapper > Edgy > Feisty upgrade on my old Dell Inspiron laptop, I 
> had a problem with very slow booting, as described in 
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/8390.  (This looks like a 
> bug in kernel 2.6.20 that's gone on for a while.)  I fixed it by editing 
> grub to default to kernel 2.6.17, which works fine.
> 
>     What I'm wondering is how the kernel versions relate to the Ubuntu 
> releases.  Specifically, my resources.list file still refers to feisty 
> repositories.  Now that I've downgraded my laptop to 2.6.17-11 (IIRC), 
> will this matter, or do I need to change it to ?Edgy repositories?
> 
>     Sorry if this is a stupid question with a dead obvious answer!
> 
As long as the first 2 digits (2.6) are the same, everything should
still run fine. No new features will be added to the kernel until 2.7,
which I expect is a long way off.
-- 
Alec Wright