Excessive kernel updates?

Andrew Kelly akelly at corisweb.org
Thu Sep 27 09:48:47 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 21:21 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:10 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > have there been excessive kernel updates lately?
> > 
> > I've only been following this list for a few months, so if this is a
> > FAQ, my apologies.
> > 
> > I used an FC4 box for quite a while, and don't recall ever catching a
> > kernel update after the initial install. Just recently (the week before
> > F7 was released in fact), I moved to FC6. What was that, coupla months
> > ago now? Today I caught what I believe is the 5th or 6th kernel update
> > since then. 
> > Is this the normal cycle of things these days, or have there been an
> > inordinate amount of kernel updates being released?
> 
> Andy, there are times when it's starting to look like there are quite a
> few kernel updates in the recent months. Not sure, but I would bet it's
> more upstream though... I'm still using the one I installed with and
> have had little problems to note with it. I think there has been some
> wireless issues. Ric

Thanks, Ric, and thank you to everybody else who's answered.

Andy




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