linux-kernel - Re: > There are actually more stable versions available but they are not advertised

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Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:03:10 +0700
From:	"Igor Podlesny" <for.poige+linux@...il.com>
To:	"Éric Piel" <eric.piel@...mplin-utc.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: > There are actually more stable versions available but they are not advertised

2008/12/29 Éric Piel <eric.piel@...mplin-utc.net>:
[...]
>>> The latest longtime version of the Linux kernel is:     2.6.16.62
>>
>>       Well, I'd call those versions stable if there were ongoing bugfixes
>> (if affected) backporting to it. Otherwise these are rather "outdated"
>> versions.
> That's _exactly_ what those trees are about: backporting bugfixes.
> Let's call them stable then ;-)

	:-)

	According to http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.62
the last commit to this version was made at Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:48:10
+0300. Looks like it's really stable ;-)

	BTW, several distros keep patching 2.6.18, that's a bit fresher; but
anyway, there's a valuable gap between that stable and kernel.org's
advertised one.

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