On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:48:36 +0200, Herbert Poetzl
<herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
> of course, nobody really knows and I don't know what
> distributions will do, but I guess that nobody wants to
> stick with a 2.6 kernel now that 3.0 is out, at least all
> the major distros will feature and support 3.x in some
> way ...
Of course they will, but I don't see RHEL6 jumping from 2.6.32 to 3.x
during it's production life, and RHEL7 isn't due for at least another
couple of years, possibly longer. Either way, whether they will shift
the distro kernel is largely irrelevant. What IS important in this case
is whether 3.0 will work on the current stable distro with at most
minimal userspace changes. As I said before, if current stable distros
will work fine with a vanilla 3.0.x kernel, then I would completely
support that, but that is something that needs to be assessed.
Gordan
Received on Thu Jul 28 18:08:00 2011