[ubuntu-uk] fit for the purpose

Chris Jones chris.jones at canonical.com
Thu Jun 21 17:48:30 BST 2007


Hi

Tony Travis wrote:
> Are there any 'point' releases of the current LTS planned?

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-November/022542.html

I've not seen any more recent communications about it, but I may well
have missed something.

> It might resolve some hardware problems if new kernel modules were 
> included in, say, a 6.06.2 LTS release, and existing LTS users could get 

That's a pretty tough proposition as it requires backporting drivers
from newer kernels, which is a bear pit of problems.

> 'biobuntu' as part of an EU-funded genomics project. I've put up a demo 

cool :)

Cheers,
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Chris Jones
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