kernel 2.6.30.1

[Bill Davidsen]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 7/3/09, Mail Lists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Mail Lists <lists at sapience.com>
>> Subject: kernel 2.6.30.1
>> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 7:47 AM
>>
>>   2.6.30.1 is the recommended stable kernel by
>> upstream - are there
>> plans to make this available for f10 and f11 ?? Both f10
>> and f11 are
>> more lagging than the past it seems - probably with the
>> release of f11.
>>
>>   I didnt find much in koji ...
>>
>>   As per linux-kernel mailing list:
>>
>>  1)  2.6.29.6
>> ****NOTE****
>> This is the last release of the 2.6.29 kernel series. 
>> All users are
>> strongly suggested to move to the 2.6.30 release series at
>> this time.
>> ************
>>
>>
>>  2) announcing the release of the 2.6.30.1 kernel. 
>> All users of the
>> 2.6.30 kernel series are very strongly encouraged to
>> upgrade.
>>
>>
>> -- 
> 
> I hear you and I am applying the patch from 2.6.30 to 2.6.30.1 as of now.
 > I know your frustrations, but Fedora is staying a bit behind as of now
 > because apparently many things were changed from 2.6.29 to 2.6.30?
 >
I think that sums it up, with any new release there will be a surge of issues, 
most minor, as new users migrate. Better to fix most of these before adding the 
features of a new kernel to the mix.

> I don't know the exact reasons, but I understand where you are coming from
> and I agree with you. Is Fedora countering the saying "Latest and Greatest"? I
 > knowthat on rawhide a 2.6.31.rcX kernel is being run, that is where the latest
 > and greatest always is, but Fedora Stable should not be so far behind? Should
 > it?
> 
Remember that "latest" and "greatest" are not synonyms, there were many changes 
in 2.6.30, and a little time for shakeout is a good thing. People are just 
getting used to ext4, adding a number of new filesystem types is likely to cause 
more questions, and probably will mean updates of the utilities for the 
filesystems as well.

I think Fedora is moving at the right speed on this one, you can build your own, 
or pull from testing, or rawhide, or koji, depending on your tolerance for 
learning experiences.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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