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Linux Kernel 2.2.26 -- 2.2 is not dead!

Posted by timothy on from the continuing-updates-as-they-happen dept.

midianus writes "Marc-Christian Petersen released Linux Kernel version 2.2.26. The release includes several security fixes. After Alan Cox released the previous 2.2 kernel, 2.2.25 in March of 2003, he began a one year sabbatical to study for an MBA in August of the same year and handed over the Maintainership of 2.2 to Marc-Christian."

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  1. Re:COOL! by sydb · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know you're kidding but we need to fight this false image Debian has unfairly gained.

    Debian has 2.6.2 images in unstable. And just recently got Firefox builds too.

    So Debian is bang up to date, if you want it to be (by running unstable).

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  2. Number of minor releases by reignbow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is there a reason that 2.2 has only one tiny release more than the 2.4 kernel? I mean, if you look at the most recent tiny versions:

    2.0.40
    2.2.26
    2.4.25
    2.6.3

    I believe that the releases of 2.x.0 were about equally spaced, so why isn't there 2.2.34 or something like that coming out? Fewer bugs? A more laid-back maintainer? Not as much movement in the OSS world?

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  3. Re:2.2.? by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How well do these earlier kernels perform on old hardware, say a 486 ? Are they lighter than the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels ? I've never really had a chance to try them.

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  4. Re:COOL! by cbcbcb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not only did it take a year for XFree86 4.3 to get in, but now that it has, it DOESN'T EVEN WORK! I have no 3D and screen corruption, which is not present in the hand-compiled X build I was running previously.

  5. Re:COOL! by alexpage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Unstable is up-to-date across all architectures. There's more to Linux than x86, and Debian is one of the distros which recognises it. Bleeding-edge x86-only packages are normally available in the experimental branch, if you need them that badly.