Linux kernel version support policy

James Cloos cloos@jhcloos.com
Thu Jan 30 19:30:00 GMT 2014


>>>>> "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 OpenVZ-based hosting providers with outdated kernels, ...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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