Fedora 6/7 kernel update plans

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Fri Sep 21 17:14:48 UTC 2007


On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:11:04 -0400
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> wrote:

> Fedora 6: leave on 2.6.22 until end-of-life
> 
> There are so many workarounds and backwards-compatibility
> issues in there that it just doesn't seem worthwhile to
> upgrade.
> 
> 
> Fedora 7: update to 2.6.23 after Fedora 8 is released
> 
> May as well update, the issues aren't nearly so great and
> users will probably want the latest kernel.

Sounds right to me.  And if it makes anyone feel any better, I've been
running a rawhide ppc64 kernel on F7 base for a while now with no
issues.

josh




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