On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:51:07 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > The rebasing to new releases isn't about adding the new features. > It's done to lower maintainence overhead. Supporting 3 releases at the same > time becomes a lot easier when 2 of them share the same kernel (and one is > only a point release away). OK then, this answers all my original questions. Thankyou. > If something got removed without a viable alternative, then that's > a regression that should be reported. Examples ? I was thinking of the 4G/4G VM patch, but I guess that's not really a feature. thanks -mike