No 2.7 Linux Kernel Branch Due Soon

An anonymous reader writes "At the fourth annual Linux Kernel Developers Summit, it was decided that there won't be a 2.7 Linux kernel development branch any time soon. Instead, Linux creator Linus Torvalds and the official 2.6 maintainer Andrew Morton have decided to continue working as a team, further enhancing the 2.6 kernel. Up to this point, kernels ending in an odd number (2.1, 2.3, 2.5, etc) were considered development kernels, and kernels ending in an even number (2.2, 2.4, 2.6, etc) were considered stable kernels. However, according to this KernelTrap article, active development will now continue in the mainline 2.6 tree, and the final stabilization will be left up to the companies that provide Linux distributions."

Comments

Re:This is bad.

[10Ghz]

I started to see that with RedHat 7x. When they decided to rip out the new VM and go with something else on a "stable" kernel, plus who knows how many RedHat modifacations.

Not quite. It was Linus that ripped the VM out. Red Hat sticked with the VM that originally shipped with 2.4

Re:Not entirely unexpected....

[vadim_t]

Please explain?

So far for me, 2.6 is turning out to be pretty stable, and I switched to it quite early, starting with 2.6.3 I think. In comparison, 2.4.3 was really bad. It was almost a miracle that I managed to avoid critical data loss after switching to 2.4.0 and using ReiserFS on my root partition.

2.6 so far just works and that's it. Maybe there's some lack of polish somewhere, but so far it works fine here on SMP.

Re:A good idea?

[bakreule]

(Overly) simple answer: 2.6-mm is development. 2.6 vanilla is stable.

Unfortunately according to the article, that's not true.... 2.6-mm is bleeding edge, 2.6 is development/testing and 2.6.redhat or whatever is stable.....