[ALUG] How soon will 2.6.18 kernel appear in stable releases?

[Brett Parker]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 01:56:48PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 October 2006 13:49, cl at isbd.net wrote:
> > which of Mandriva, Ubuntu and Suse is likely to
> > offer it first?
> 
> Do Ubuntu use Debian kernels? If so, it may be relevant that (afaik) Debian 
> have decided that 2.6.17 is going to be the etch kernel (or, at least, 
> they've done a -2 package for it).

Nope - they use thier own with lots of firmware and foo in it to make
all your hardware "magically" work. They're usually a little quicker
than Debian at mangling in newer kernels too, but then 3 arches versus
11 makes that slightly easier ;)

Cheers,
-- 
Brett Parker