Kernel 2.6.16 for Dapper LTS?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:37:40PM -0700, Keith Curtis wrote:
> Linus says in this article that lots of people are using 2.6.16, which he
> thinks could be a kernel which people 'hunker down' to really stabilize. I
> wonder whether Ubuntu should move up to that. How many patches have been
> backported from the 2.6.16. tree?
> 
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/08/1439236

That's a bit unfortunate, because 2.6.16 was not ready at the time when we
needed to make this decision.  We've put a lot of work into stabilizing
2.6.15, though (including backporting bugfixes), and it's looking very good.

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 - mdz