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-
Linux release model (1)
+
Linux release model
- The old model:
-
-
- -
- Each stable release had even second component. Bug fixes and
- minor features in stable releases with third component
- incremented (e.g. 2.4.27)
-
- -
- Major development done separately, resulting in series of
- unstable releases with odd second component (e.g. 2.5.50)
-
- -
- After a year or two, development resulted in a new stable
- release
-
- -
- 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.
-
-
-
-
-
-
Linux release model (2)
-
- The new model:
+ Since ~2004:
- 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
@@ -172,10 +146,6 @@
-
- Linux 3.0 doesn't change this, except that x is now
- the second component and y is the third
-
@@ -237,8 +207,8 @@
Official Linux kernel packages (1)
- Main source package is linux-2.6
- (still!). Most binary package names change regularly.
+ Main source package is linux. Most
+ binary package names change regularly.
-
@@ -258,11 +228,11 @@
-
linux-doc-upstream,
- linux-tools-upstream, etc.
+ linux-manual-upstream, etc.
-
linux-support-upstream-abi -
- scripts and metadata to support linux-latest-2.6
+ scripts and metadata to support linux-latest
@@ -270,9 +240,9 @@
Official Linux kernel packages (2)
- The linux-latest-2.6 source package builds meta-packages
+ The linux-latest source package builds meta-packages
to support automatic upgrades between binaries built
- from linux-2.6.
+ from linux.
-
@@ -306,9 +276,21 @@
images and tools
-
- linux-kbuild-2.6 builds
- linux-kbuild-upstream -
- kernel build system and tools for building OOT modules
+ linux-tools builds
+
+ -
+ linux-kbuild-upstream -
+ kernel build system and tools for building OOT modules
+
+ -
+ linux-tools-upstream
+ - perf tool
+
+ -
+ usbip - usbip configuration
+ tools
+
+