>>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 5:03 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Spaulding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought the two different kernels referred to the two different streams > that are used for updates/patches on the IBM developer website. The 2.6.5 > is the older one that is delivered with SLES9 > and the 2.6.23 is the newer kernel which is not yet delivered as the GA > kernel version. I am not sure what kernel version is used for SLES10. > > Am I correct on this Mark ?
Not exactly, no. The article on 2.6.23 has nothing to do with any current SLES or RHEL release. It's just the most recent GA kernel from kernel.org. As far as the "streams" on IBM's developerWorks pages, that's fairly straightforward these days. The IBM developers have been focusing on several things: - Getting new functionality and fixes incorporated into the current GA and development trees maintained by Linus and all - Back porting as much of that functionality and fixes to the kernel versions supported in SLES and RHEL. The second is where the "streams" come in. Once Novell or Red Hat decide on a particular kernel version for a new distribution, the IBM developers start putting their new functionality and fix patches out for that version. That gets identified as a stream. It's intended to help the distribution providers adopt new function or fixes, without having do all the back porting work themselves. (At least as I understand it.) Of course, nothing stops anyone else from taking those patches and integrating them into their own distribution (think Debian/390 and Slack/390). Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
