reflecting on first UDS session on "rolling releases"

Timo Aaltonen tjaalton at ubuntu.com
Thu Mar 7 05:51:00 UTC 2013


On 06.03.2013 23:51, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 3/6/2013 1:28 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:
>> As far as I understand, a really good effort is already put into the
>> hardware enablement part in LTS. So hypothetically, if a dozen or so
> 
> It is?  The kernel team backports drivers for new hardware to the LTS
> kernel?  I didn't think that was the case and that would be a big reason
> for OEMs not to want a 2 year cadence.

It is based on the backported quantal kernel and X stack, both of which
are on the main archive and installable by anyone willing to migrate to
it, and 12.04.2 images use it by default.

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t



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