V Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:02:13 +0100
Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:18:25 +0200, Roman Vesely <roman@liten.cz>
> wrote:
>
> > My (=sysadmin) reasons for:
> >
> > 2.6.32.x:
> >
> > +++ Support. Guaranteed support (bug fixes, security patches) for a
> > long time.
>
> >>=2.6.38:
> >
> > --- Unsupported. Big problems if a serious vulnerability found.
>
> Can you please clarify what you mean by "supported" here. Are you
> suggesting that 2.6.32.x will get security patches back-ported do it
> but 2.6.38.x will not? If so, can you please post a link to the post
> where this has been stated by the kernel developers?
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand.
http://lwn.net/Articles/445974/
"This is the LAST .38 stable kernel release, please move to the
.39-stable tree at this point in time."
Of course I can fix the kernel itself.
But the kernel team does it better.
Thanks,
Roman
(sorry for my englist)
Received on Thu Jul 28 18:19:30 2011