lucid and 2.6.33?

[Phillip Susi]

On 3/25/2010 4:41 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> It's not clear to me how a handful of folks at Canonical or RedHat 
> splicing and dicing kernel code from one version into another 
> necessarily gives you greater stability than an officially released 
> kernel that has been thoroughly tested by thousands of kernel hackers....

Like all software, the kernel is not already thoroughly tested when it
is released, testing is what happens after.  Each release incorporates
many new changes that have not been thoroughly tested yet, which you
don't want in a stable system.  You get a more stable system then, by
sticking to the more well tested kernel and only occasionally back
porting the one or two changes you really want and are reasonably sure
will not cause problems.