Where is 2.6.32?

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Sat, 3/6/10, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>
> Subject: Re: Where is 2.6.32?
> To: "john wendel" <jwendel10 at comcast.net>
> Cc: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Saturday, March 6, 2010, 3:14 PM
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 14:04:06
> -0800,
>   john wendel <jwendel10 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> > But 2.6.33 has already been released.
> 
> Graphics and kernels are tied together in a way that makes
> backporting
> kernels more difficult. This is part of the reason that you
> aren't seeing
> the new kernels appear in older releases as soon as they
> used to.
> There is long discussion related to this about how the
> nouveau abi change
> makes it hard to switch kernels on the linux kernel mailing
> list.
> -- 

I see that *JUST RECENTLY* there was a 2.6.32.9.X-fc12 kernel being released to test out.  ON rawhide there is a 2.6.34.rc1? kernel.  For Fedora stable, *IT IS TAKING TOO LONG* to push the kernels.  Hey those that say that Fedora is BLEEDING EDGE are now being denied that claim.  Slackware which is known for stability and NOT in the upgrade constantly frenzy is at 2.6.33 

olivares at darkstar:~$ uname -r
2.6.33-smp
olivares at darkstar:~$ cat /etc/slackware-version
Slackware 13.0.0.0.0

But to give you credit, where credit is due.  Many users out there are having trouble because of the noveau getting in the way of the nvidia drivers and this is causing lots of headaches and *Fedora is doing the right thing* to wait and make sure that things work out before releasing the kernels RIGHT?

On another note, due to the inability of Fedora to release a 2.6.32 kernel, I was on the impression that IT was going to be SKIPPED to make way for 2.6.33 and its many IMPROVEMENTS.  Like John I will compile the new kernel as soon as I can and see if the native nouveau just works because I could not go back to a previous 2.6.30 kernel that I compiled because it(noveau) did not build and I did not want to use the nvidia driver just yet.

Regards,

Antonio