2.6.26 kernel in hardy?

[H.S.]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> H.S. wrote:
>> The difference, or the reason for my OP here, is that even Intrepid
>> doesn't seem to have 2.6.26, only 2.6.27. If it did, it wouldn't have
>> been a problem.
> 
> Usually there is only one kernel version available for individual Ubuntu 
> versions. It is the kernel version which was distributed with the 
> original release. There will be bug fixes but not a new kernel version. 
> The kernel distributed with 8.04 was 2.6.24-15 (IIRC) and now we have 
> 2.6.24-23 but don't expect to find 2.6.25 or even higher versions for 


Okay. I understand this in Hardy, which is LTS. But it looks like
Intrepid had only 2.6.27 kernel. Did Ubuntu skip 2.6.26 altogether?

I was hoping that Intrepid had 2.6.26 in its repos.


> 8.04 in any supported repository. The reason is stability - some 
> hardware may no longer work with a newer kernel version and that would 
> be very bad for any released distribution.
> 

This appears to be already the case in Intrepid: 2.6.27 broke some
webcam support (e.g. vx-1000), which were working fine until 2.6.26. If
Intrepid had 2.6.26 kernel as well in its repos, then the users could
have easily reverted to that kernel.

Regards.




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