Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

[Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 06:49:31PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 August 2012 18:08:58 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> > On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote:
> > > It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenamed
> > > "oldstable") because even the current stable release (Squeeze) neither
> > > get kernel upgrades (for kernel upgrades I mean going from 2.6.26 to
> > > 2.6.32 or 3.x branch, for instance). Kernel upgrades in Debian only
> > > happen in testing (until becomes frozen) and sid.
> >
> > Unless there's an upgrade to fix a security issue, I believe?
> 
> Not for Lenny.  Lenny will get nothing new, not even security updates, now 
> that it has been archived.

Yes, correct, but Squeeze will, that was Tony's point. 
oldstable is supported for about a year, to give people time to plan
migration.

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