[ubuntu-uk] kernels and releases

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Tue Jun 19 17:05:02 BST 2007


On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 16:27 +0100, Alec Wright wrote:
> 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.

Umm, that's a little, er, inaccurate  :)

New stuff comes into the kernel all the time, new drivers, new
technologies etc. kvm for example came in at 2.6.20, not on a major
point release.

Cheers,
Al.

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