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Re: Linux kernel version support policy
- From: James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>, Adam Conrad <adconrad at 0c3 dot net>, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>, aurel32 at debian dot org
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:09:46 -0500
- Subject: Re: Linux kernel version support policy
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>>>>> "RF" == Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> writes:
RF> While on the one hand I'd like to avoid breaking things for users of
RF> OpenVZ-based hosting providers with outdated kernels, ...
RF> ... mildly in favor of bumping the requirement to 2.6.32.
I have a few servers hosted on (cheap) openvzs; all run 2.6.32 based
versions of openvz's kernel. All of which, according to the version
strings, were built on rh6.
A min of 2.6.32 for 2.20 shouldn't be a problem for openvz lessors.
-JimC
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