The question of rolling release?

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On 01/25/2012 10:01 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Bryan Quigley <gquigs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It's pretty simple, really.  Basically, if we don't keep the kernel on at
> least a somewhat recent release the amount of work required to support
> that release grows beyond what we can realistically maintain.
> 

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> 
> Hopefully that helps explain what we're thinking when we go about doing
> what we do.  As usual, sorry for being overly verbose.
> 
> josh

  A great explanation - and a nice summary of why a rolling release
makes sense for many of the same reasons .. :-)

  thanks josh!

 PS - special thanks to you and the kernel team for doing a great job
keeping the kernel up to date and purring nicely ...