KernelTrap: 2.6.16.y Lives On

“The Linux kernel development model changed a couple of years
ago at the 2004 Kernel Summit. At that time it was decided that as
a team Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton were doing a great job
together maintaining the 2.6 kernel, using Andrew’s -mm kernel as a
staging area with new features being allowed into the mainline
kernel and ultimate stabilization left up to Linux distributions.
In March of 2005, Greg KH and Chris Wright began maintaining a
-stable patchset, accepting small, focused patches fixing real bugs
or security issues. The -stable patchsets have been maintained
since for the latest kernel and the previously released
kernel…”

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