Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

> They are very reluctant to upgrade kernels today, for released versions
> of the distro, and so they backport kernel fixes and security updates to
> that older kernel, just like all of the packages in a distro.  That's
> they way they work.


fedora actually regularly updates to newer kernels, as service to their
users. (And since kernels still fix more bugs than they create it's a
net win ;)

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