Kernel 2.6.16 for Dapper LTS?

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:28:57PM -0400, David Walker wrote:
> 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?

We expect that the bulk of the requirement for a long-term supported
release will consist of installations performed not too long after the
release of dapper on hardware that's broadly supported by dapper; after
all, if you're doing an install four years from now, then you might as
well just install with dapper+8, as that'll be supported for 18 months
from then. It's not necessarily inconceivable to add more hardware
support, but I don't think it's the most important part of long-term
support.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]