Re:Strange choice of kernel version for a new rele
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 10, 2007 06:00 AM
We chose to keep the base system (kernel, glibc, a couple of other low level bits) the same across 2007 and 2007.1 in order to increase the stability of the new release and to provide a consistent platform for third party developers. Updating the kernel to the latest available at the time of release (2.6.20) would have been a very disruptive change. The next release - 2008 - will introduce a new base system with an up-to-date kernel and so forth.
There is an alternate kernel maintained by a community member in the<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/contrib repository. It's called kernel-tmb. In Spring, it's a 2.6.20 kernel, with many driver updates and so on. It includes all the most important customizations that the official kernel uses, so it usually works pretty seamlessly. It's a good option if you have newer hardware that will not work with a 2.6.17 kernel. It's not officially supported, but the maintainer (Thomas Backlund) keeps it up to date regularly with the latest fixes and security updates.
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Re:Strange choice of kernel version for a new rele
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 10, 2007 06:00 AMThere is an alternate kernel maintained by a community member in the<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/contrib repository. It's called kernel-tmb. In Spring, it's a 2.6.20 kernel, with many driver updates and so on. It includes all the most important customizations that the official kernel uses, so it usually works pretty seamlessly. It's a good option if you have newer hardware that will not work with a 2.6.17 kernel. It's not officially supported, but the maintainer (Thomas Backlund) keeps it up to date regularly with the latest fixes and security updates.
-AdamW
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