SaidinUnleashed
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Posted: April 11 2005,19:32 |
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There are currently no plans (from what I have been told) to ever move to a 2.6.x kernel, for the following reasons.
1. the 2.6.x kernel is several megabytes bigger than the 2.4.x kernel, so it would cramp DSL's functionality.
2. the 2.6.x kernel drops a lot of support for legacy technologies, hardware, etc, and we want to keep DSL functional on as much hardware as possible
3. all major improvements that have occured to the 2.6.x tree have been, and are being backported to the 2.4.x tree, by a very active bacporting team. And even though Linus said he would not participate in the backporting process this time, the demand for 2.4.x kernel maintenence is about the same as the demand for updates and improvements to the 2.6.x kernel, so even he has helped in the process, though not as much as what he does toward 2.6 development. For evidence of this activity, take a look at kernel.org, where you can see, the 2.4.30 kernel was released, just a few days ago.
-J.P.
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