On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:22:39 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > Regarding the kernel... well, I don't think having a 3.8.x kernel as > stable one is so old, what are current kernel versions in stable > Fedora, OpenSuSE, Mageia... last time I checked we weren't so ahead > on this (thanks to kernel team ;)) Don't compare apples and eggs. In other distros, heavy backporting of fixes and so on happens; but on Gentoo, we instead want to keep our genpatches minimal and therefore follow upstream stable more closely. If we have a kernel version stable that is stable on other distros, it is merely a sign that our stabilization currently is in a severe state... -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : TomWij@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D