Linux kernel version support policy

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Tue Jan 28 01:44:00 GMT 2014


On Monday, January 27, 2014 16:17:54 David Miller wrote:
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > i still see people running 2.6.18 kernels today.  usually in server
> > environments like old RHEL 5 or OpenVZ or Xen instances.
> 
> Are they upgrading to current versions of glibc?

yes.  they control the userland, not the kernel.
-mike
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