Am 24.03.2012 01:18, schrieb Sergio Belkin: > 2012/3/23 Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> 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. > > Thanks Adams and the rest, so all in all it's a matter of outdated > information of kernel linux isn't it? in my opinion it is wrong understanding mainline does not imply release candidate this is usually marked iwth rc or dev suffixes there is even a ubuntu kernel called "mainline" in this context it means "unmodified without distro patches"
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