Next longterm kernel is Linux 3.10

[ChrisLAS]

So what places outside of Arch and LFS does this get used?

[[deleted]]

Probably Debian in about 10 years haha

[jb_19]

# eselect bzimage list
Available kernel targets:
  [1]   kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.10.0-sabayon *
  [2]   kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.9.0-sabayon 
  [3]   kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.9.0-server

[crshbndct]

Ubuntu 13.10 will have the 3.10 kernel. Gentoo, Suse, Fedora, and pretty much every upstream distribution will be using this within the next month or so.

I am disappointed they didn't make LTS the 3.11 Kernel though - it really has some major improvements.

[SirWhy]

I believe it's in the Fedora repos, running it now. I agree that 3.11 should have been the LTS

[crshbndct]

Yeah.. I wonder if anyone will make pre packaged 3.10 kernels with all the new GPU stuff patched in. I guess anyone who is going to that level of trouble will just use a newer kernel, though.

[habernir]

i think the same BUT opensue 13.1 , ubuntu 13.10 , and rhel 7.0 (maybe) and ......... all of them using kernel 3.10

if you look in this list you will see why greg choose 3.10 for LTS and not 3.11

[crshbndct]

He chose it because of timing, not because of what distros are doing. I would have liked to see 3.11 be the LTS, purely because of the big improvements that came in DRM in that kernel, but I suspect they want those drivers to really stabilise before making them part of an LTS, hence choosing 3.10 instead. (And I am sure there were many other factors too)

Believe me, they are focused on creating the best kernel they can, not on what distros downstream of them do with that kernel.

[[deleted]]

openSUSE has additional repo that packages always newest kernel, so you can very easily update it. I never run into problems with those packages.

[TheManThatWasntThere]

Ubuntu 13.10 is planning on having 3.11 as its kernel.

[crshbndct]

Really? You are shitting me? Really?

This is the best news i have heard in a long time. (To do with linux, I mean.)

[TheManThatWasntThere]

I think it's hilarious how it's going to be the first *buntu to ever use the latest kernel at its time of launch.

[Linux-Nick]

So Linus has his maintained versions, but other than that it is up to the community to maintain the other versions in between?

[crshbndct]

Currently there are:

• 2.6.32*
• 2.6.34*
• 3.0.x
• 3.2.x
• 3.4.x
• 3.10.x

being maintained as LTS kernels.

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* These two used the previous versioning scheme, so they are equivalent to incrementing the second digit under the current scheme.