long term support, multiple kernels, etc

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

> - we should look to see what RHEL and SUSE and Debian are using for
> their major server oriented releases. I think RHEL is due a release some
> time in the Dapper time frame, what will they be using? Effective
> collaboration and review of their work will help us find low hanging
> fruit, that is much easier to do if we're on the same upstream version.

actually RHEL5 is scheduled in late 2006:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1864109,00.asp

so if RHEL4 has 2.6.8 which was released six months before the OS, then 
RHEL5 might have a version that will be released in the first half of 
2006.

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