[arch-dev-public] The next LTS

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Sun Aug 4 20:52:43 EDT 2013


On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Am 04.08.2013 14:37, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In case someone missed it, Greg just announced that 3.10 will be the
>> next LTS kernel [0].
>>
>> It might make sense to bump linux-lts to 3.10 shortly after linux-3.11
>> moves to [core]. What do you think?
>>
>> -t
>>
>> [0]: <http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2013/08/04/longterm-kernel-3-dot-10/>
>
> Agreed, but no need to hurry. We can wait until the last 3.0 release
> which was planned for October(?).

Given the point of the LTS kernel, I would also agree that we should
not rush the switch. People that want the latest and greatest should
be running our standard kernel, we want to make absolutely sure the
LTS kernel has had time to stabilize before we shift the major version
we ship.

-Dan


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