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Stable 2.6 Branches

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 12, 2007

“‘For the last release, I stated that I thought the 2.6.22.12
release would be the last one in the 2.6.22.y series. Since then,
I’ve received a number of other patches that would be nice to have
in the .22.y tree,’ explained Greg KH. He continued:

“‘So, for a while, I’ll keep the 2.6.22.y tree open, doing new
releases every once in a while as they accumulate. I do this, for
no other than the selfish reason that I use it every day on my
openSuSE 10.3 boxes as that is the kernel base that release is on
:)…'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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