Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

[Paul Jackson]

Arjan, responding to Matthias
> > SUSE end-user distros (SUSE LINUX <version>) are released every 6 months
> > or so, and are supported for 24 months. Their "enterprise server" is
> > supported for 60 months though, SLES 9 forked off 9.1.
> 
> sure.. but they don't add new hw support really, and I'd not be
> surprised if they rebase to a newer upstream kernel after a while.

They will start a new enterprise release, off a new base, every so
often, and call the next one SLES 10.  But SLES 9 will continue to be
supported, off its current kernel.org base, for an extended period of
time.

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