linux-2.2 future?
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Quoted 11 lines · Marc-Christian Petersen
Hi Alan,
Quoted 4 lines · Alan Cox
he 2.2 tree needs a new maintainer, someone who can spend their entire life refusing patches, being ignored by the mainstream (because 2.2 is boring) and by vendors (who don't ship 2.2 any more).
I want to take 2.2.
What's up with linux-2.2 now? Who will do Alan's job in the next year?
Marc is intrested doing this job. I know Marc from linux-2.2.x-secure and from the wolk project, see http://wolk.sourceforge.net. Why not Marc? He can surely differentiate between mainstream and a private kernel fork tree. Or do you think, Marc will merge every single bit out of his kernel tree into mainstream? I bet he won't
I can't see postings from other people who want to take 2.2.
I think 2.2 is not dead. I often see 2.2 kernels running on systems like wlan access points or dsl routers from different vendors. 2.2 is often used where stability is a must-have. At least security fixes have to go in.
What do you think?
Ruben
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Quoted 3 lines · Ruben Puettmann
I think 2.2 is not dead. I often see 2.2 kernels running on systems like wlan access points or dsl routers from different vendors. 2.2 is often used where stability is a must-have. At least security fixes have to go in.
And they still use something like 2.2.12 which has a few remote exploits. ;)