[Jim Campbell]

Adam . . .  Sorry for the confusion, but I think they were referring to
versions of Gnome in Ubuntu, not the kernel versions.  :)

On 11/1/06, Adam Miller <maxamillion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> dapper is running 2.6.15 and edgy is running 2.6.17 but what do kernel
> versions have to do with xfce?
>
> -Adam
>
> On 11/1/06, eddie at veloct.net <eddie at veloct.net> wrote:
> >
> > It's different for Ubuntu (at least that's my opinion).  Dapper is
> > running
> > 2.14.2 or .3 which was the stable at that release and Edgy is running
> > 2.16.1 which is stable at it's release.  Xubuntu is running beta2/rc1 of
> >
> > XFCE why not keep updating until the final 4.4 is out? Why not release
> > xubuntu with 4.2.3.2 until 4.4 is out then?  Are they backporting Edgy's
> > version of XFCE to Dapper then?
> >
> > Original Message:
> > -----------------
> > From:  foxy at on-the-hill.me.uk
> > Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:59:25 +0000
> > To: xubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: Re:
> >
> >
> > Quoting Jani Monoses <jani.monoses at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > On 11/1/06, Adam Miller <maxamillion at gmail.com > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I hope my ignorance is not leading this question, but why would time
> > be
> > >> spent on updating an older release instead of the current one?
> > >>
> > >
> > > the base system of dapper is maintained for 3 years as part of the
> > Ubuntu
> > > long term support plan so xubuntu users of dapper get that part as
> > well.
> > > Dapper is an exception in this sense, I don;t think we can just upload
> > > random non-critical fixes to edgy anyway.
> > > We cannot update both edgy and dapper so we pick the one as we have
> > limited
> > > time even for the development version let alone supporting already
> > released
> > > ones.
> > >
> > > Jani
> >
> > I also vote for Dapper update... it is a LTS release after all...
> > Personally I may even skip Edgy and update to Feisty in April...  at
> > least I do not see any strong  reason to switch to Edgy at the
> > moment... Though I guess for Xubuntu it should be more substantial
> > improvement than for Ubuntu is general...
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