Question mainline kernel on Fedora

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 17:46 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> Dne 23.3.2012 17:23, Sergio Belkin napsal(a):
> > Sorry I explained it bad, I'm talking about that latest release
> > available of kernel  for f16 is kernel-3.3.0-4.fc16.x86_64 and stable
> > is 3.2.12
> 
> That does not mean that 3.3 is somehow unstable. It is supposed to be 
> generally usable and not dangerous. But of course there are always some 
> bugs. That's why every $major.$minor release gets its "stable" branch 
> with backported fixes.
> 
> ...-- 3.2 --- 3.3-rc1 --- 3.3-rc2 --- ... --- 3.3 --- 3.4-rc1 --- ...
>          \                                       \
>           \--- 3.2.1 --- ... --- 3.2.12           \--- 3.3.1 --- ...
> 
> http://kernel.org/faq/#stablekernels

And to be clear, 3.3.0-4 is a build of 3.3.0 final. It is not an rc
build.

kernel team builds rc kernels for early pre-releases and Rawhide, but
not for stable releases.
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