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Linux Kernel 2.6 Nears End of Life; Upgrade Advised

posted by janrinok on Monday June 15 2015, @10:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.

"gewg_" writes:

Softpedia reports

The Linux kernel 2.6.32.67 LTS maintenance release has been made available [June 4] for all users of the 2.6 kernel series, and it promises to fix two regressions that have been introduced in the previous point release of the branch, Linux kernel 2.6.32.66 LTS.

[...] The 2.6.32 kernel series [...] will reach end of life in a couple of months, which means that [all users of 2.6.x] will have to move to a different LTS (Long Term Supported) kernel branch, such as Linux kernel 3.2 or Linux kernel 3.4.

For the record, Kernel 2.6.0 was released 2003/12/17, and Kernel 2.6.32 was released 2009/12/03.

In other kernel news, Greg Kroah-Hartman tweeted that Kernel 4.1 will be an LTS version.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by paulej72 on Tuesday June 16 2015, @01:24AM

    by paulej72 (58) on Tuesday June 16 2015, @01:24AM (#196693) Journal

    RHEL 5 and 6 is a 2.6 kernel distro and will be until it is off support in March of 2017 and November of 2020 respectively. RedHat will continue as always backporting enhancements and bug fixes as needed.

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