Re: Kernel

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

There are two kernel tracks:

2.2.x (stable series)
2.3.x (development series)

When 2.3.x development goes into a "bug-fix only mode" it splits into:

2.4.x (stable)
2.5.x (development)

and so on.

So 2.2.13 is the 13th iteration of the 2.2.x kernel series.

Now, 2.0.x's last release was 37, 1.0.x went up to 9.  The development
series kernels generally go much higher.

Generally you want to run the lastest stable kernel, but usually I wait a
bit.

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Spencer Portee wrote:

> moo> Well I looked at the 2.2.13 readme, and looks like there are a number of
> moo> fixes that are applicable to us (networking, security, and SMP) that the
> moo> stock 2.2.12 kernel doesn't have.  I know the 2.2.12-6 kernel on VA's site
> moo> is based on a pre-RH 6.1 kernel, so I'm pretty certain that it doesn't
> moo> have the fixes.
> 
> how many kernels ARE there??  I thoguth it was just the splitting up of
> the beta and stable, but what are these others?
> 

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