Re: Long maintenance kernel versions.

[AmÃrico Wang]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:10:09AM +0200, Geoffrey Said wrote:
>To whom it may concern.
>
>I would like to put forward the following questions.  Hope that I am
>not making a fool of myself!
>
>How is the procedure by which a certain kernel version is declared as
>a long maintenance version?


This mainly depends on how many major Linux distributions rely on
that version of kernel, AFAIK.

>Is the version decided before or after the release of the stable kernel?

After.

>And where can I check for planned long term maintenance versions?
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel

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