F-10 kernel upgrade

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Apr 17 22:33:46 UTC 2009


Denis Leroy wrote:
> What is the reasoning for pushing a 2.6.29 kernel to Fedora 10 (a stable
> release about half-way its lifetime) ? Was there something fundamentally
> wrong with the 2.6.27.x kernel ? Why introduce some much instability ?

It has always been the Fedora kernel maintainers' policy to push new kernel
versions as updates (and I like that policy - if you don't want new
versions in your updates, you can use one of the many distributions around
which don't push them). It's just 2.6.28 which was skipped.

        Kevin Kofler




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