tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12812632.post4822981365794318980..comments2023-06-05T14:40:18.344+05:30Comments on CONtroverSial PROSe: Latest and greatest(untested)?!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12812632.post-61460836351399697272011-06-02T16:05:52.919+05:302011-06-02T16:05:52.919+05:30@nikanth: yes, oS has newer versions (see http://e...@nikanth: yes, oS has newer versions (see http://en.opensuse.org/Kernel) but our stable release does not get newer kernels. We don't want to break things that are working and only have bugfixes during our 20 month life cycle.<br /><br />Our engineers are pretty experienced in back porting bug fixes without breaking things as they have to do that for 10+ years in SLE :D<br /><br />However, we also have our unique rolling release repository opensuse.org/Tumbleweed which DOES ship the latest kernel. Of course it does, with Greg KH taking care of it :D<br /><br />So we actually have the best of both worlds. Tumbleweed is more up to date than say Fedora as it ships new kernels quickly; our stable release is more stable than Ubuntu as it doesn't ship new kernels (or other packages) with the risk of breaking things but does have a longer release cycle.<br /><br />And all that because we use the Open Build Service - without it, doing this is simply VERY hard.Jos Poortvliethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05243886270488333877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12812632.post-2408275553784460472009-02-18T10:26:00.000+05:302009-02-18T10:26:00.000+05:30Hmm.. I did not get your comment earlier.Opensuse ...Hmm.. I did not get your comment earlier.<BR/><BR/>Opensuse not only provides the latest linus-git kernel (Vanilla), but also the <B>future kernels</B> (linux-next)from Stephen Rothwell’s linux-next GIT tree ;)Nikanth Karthikesanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08211327319076373064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12812632.post-74447367919322797692009-02-16T15:32:00.000+05:302009-02-16T15:32:00.000+05:30Yes, every distro atleast updates the kernel to th...Yes, every distro atleast updates the kernel to the latest stable + fixes + backports.<BR/><BR/>The above statistics just tells how new/old the kernel was when a distro dishes it to the users.<BR/><BR/>IOW how soon a distro _thinks_ a newer version of kernel is stable enough for the users. Being the fastest may not be the right thing.Nikanth Karthikesanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08211327319076373064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12812632.post-44716087422432870962009-02-16T15:07:00.000+05:302009-02-16T15:07:00.000+05:30Fedora keeps up to date on the kernel using git sn...Fedora keeps up to date on the kernel using git snapshots throughout the development phase. After release more recent kernels are regularly issued. So it's rather irrelevant what version is shipped in release. As such F10 already has a newer .27 based kernel than was shipped in release and .29 is positioned to take it's place once it is felt to be stable enough.<BR/><BR/>http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8<BR/><BR/>In general Fedora does this with all packages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com