On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Dennis J. wrote:
That's really my point. 2.6.30 will be out soon so 2.6.29 will be
outdated
again. What is the motivation of putting this much work into a kernel that
will be outdated when released and only have a shelf-life of 7 or 8 months.
Is there some critical feature in there that makes 2.6.29 so much better than
2.6.27 to warrant this much effort for so little gain?
By that argument you would never update at all, because there will always
be a new kernel coming along in a few months. There is also a cost to
standing still, because things go out of date, and they would have to work
to back-port patches for security fixes etc.
Michael Young