FedoraOS Server Platform ( FOSSP )

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 14:53 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> On 11/19/2013 02:43 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 14:22 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> >> I think there's some value at least to tying our Fedora Server
> >> stable releases to one of the LTS kernels to minimize
> >> disruption.
> > 
> > I guess we can try, but then how do you deal with hardware
> > enablement for the latest and greatest hardware ? I do agree we
> > could keep a pinned kernel as 'the stable one', but if we go that
> > road I think we should still make it possible for people to at 
> > least try to use a newer kernel from the core packages as they come
> > out if they have new hardware (or nasty bugs) that is not supported
> > (not fixed/fixable) in the "stable" kernel.
> > 
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> 
> Well, in my personal opinion, that should probably fall into the
> category of "Here's the gun, try to only hit one of your toes". I
> don't think we necessarily want to spend any effort to full test and
> feature such kernels.
> 
> Of course, I am open to convincing arguments, but I'd like to hear
> them come from the kernel team, ideally.

Well I hope so, given you have to sign them up for a stable release and
they may simply refuse :-)

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York