Kernel 2.6.16 for Dapper LTS?

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Fri, 12 May 2006, David Walker wrote:

> I have not been reading all that much on the devel list recently, but I just 
> thought of something about this now.
>
> Has there been any thought into the usability of dapper 2, 3, or 4 years from 
> now?  Since it will be a supported system for 5, hardware in the next few 
> years be incompatible with the current kernel.  Or new hardware may only have 
> support with some nifty new features in Linux3.0.  So is the hardware of the 
> future going to be supported, or is the support of dapper limited to hardware 
> currently available at the release?

in 1-3 years there will most likely be a new "long term support" version 
of Ubuntu, so new installations would naturally use that instead of 6.06.

t