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Novell Changes Enterprise Linux Kernel Mid-Stream
darthcamaro writes "Enterprise Linux kernels, from Red Hat or Novell, don't change version numbers inside of a release, right? While that has been the case for the last decade of Red Hat and Novell releases, Novell is breaking the mold with SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 service pack one. Instead of backporting new kernel features to the kernel they originally shipped with — which maintains software and hardware vendor certification — they've re-based their Linux kernel version altogether. '"There were some things that led us to update the kernel itself, which is something that we normally don't do: Neither SLES 9 or SLES 10 got a kernel update," Markus Rex, director of open platform solutions at Novell, told InternetNews.com. "But in this particular case, after deep discussion with our ISV and hardware vendors that gave us certifications, we felt in this case a kernel update was the appropriate step to take.'"
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
bookmark this. now you never have to go through the agony of googling a bunch of stupid animal names again. think of what you can do with all that free time.
Now, I've used both Debian and Ubuntu quite a bit, and don't want to get into which is better, but when it comes to naming conventions you can't really point to either one as being good or professional. Debian uses Toy Story characters for christ sake. And yes, I know they're 'codenames' not release names, but the GP's point is unaffected by this; when you're in Debian forums people constantly refer to the codename. The only reason that Debian names are any easier to remember is because they don't change for 5 years.