-The Linux kernel in Debian - Ben Hutchings - Mini-DebConf Paris 2012
+The Linux kernel in Debian - Mini-DebConf Paris 2012
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The Linux kernel in Debian
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Ben Hutchings
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Ben Hutchings and Max Attems
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The author
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Ben Hutchings
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Professional software developer since 1998
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Debian kernel contributor since 2008; uploader since 2009
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Initially trying to deal with the non-free firmware issue
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Max Attems
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TODO
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Linux kernel
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Linux release model (1)
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- The old model:
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- Each stable release had even second component. Bug fixes and
- minor features in stable releases with third component
- incremented (e.g. 2.4.27)
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- Major development done separately, resulting in series of
- unstable releases with odd second component (e.g. 2.5.50)
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- After a year or two, development resulted in a new stable
- release
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- Problem: users waited years for new features, and then got many
- more changes all at once. Particularly bad in the 2.4-2.6
- transition.
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Linux release model (2)
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Linux release model
- The new model:
+ Since ~2004:
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- Each 2.6.x release has stable update branch; releases
- numbered 2.6.x.y
+ Each 2.6.x and 3.x release has a stable
+ update branch; releases numbered 2.6.x.y
+ and 3.x.y
Usually closed shortly after next stable release, but may
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- Linux 3.0 doesn't change this, except that x is now
- the second component and y is the third
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Currently 5 general maintainers: Maximilian Attems, Bastian
- Blank, dann frazier, Moritz Muehlenhoff and me
+ Blank, dann frazier, Ben Hutchings, Moritz Muehlenhoff
Many more specialised contributors:
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Also collected in linux-firmware.git repository maintained by
- David Woodhouse and myself
+ David Woodhouse and Ben Hutchings
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Redistribution is free but has to include this notice.
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