On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:58:33 -0800, Tim Alberts <talberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Simple, the even Kernels are production/stable while the odd kernels are > test/development. > That was the way until 2.6 was released. You see a lot of experimentation which in prior releases would have gone into 2.7. > > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:56 -0500, Steven Pasternak wrote: > > How come the big popular kernels are even numbered minor releases? Kernel 2.0, > > 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6 are the only ones used. Why don't (or didn't) distros ship > > with 2.1, 2.3, and 2.5 kernels? I checked debian, redhat, suse, and mandrake > > (with distrowatch.com) and all previous versions had the even kernels only. > > Thanks! > > -Steven > > >
