Debian and Kernel Releases
I was looking at the documentation for the latest stable debian release,
and noticed that it is shipped with kernel 2.0.36. As we know kernel
2.2 is now released. So I am wondering what the relationship is
between debian development and kernel development? Would it be better
to develop debian around the latest kernel? I presume that developing
and or compiling programs on a machine with the latest stable kernel
must have some advantage over simply installing a precompiled binary on
an updated kernel.
This is not a criticism of Debian because obviously, debian releases can
not follow exactly the latest kernel releases. There will always be
some delay. I was just wondering about the relationship because 2.2 is
a major kernel release. Or is this really not that significant?
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