[Tfug] Kernel Versions

[Nathan England]

> 
> The short answer is that there's folks out there maintaining more than
> just the last release.  This is handy if for example you need to keep to
> 2.6.30 to use some proprietary stuff (as an example VMware or various
> graphics drivers) but don't want to be in trouble if there's some
> critical bug that's discovered / fixed for the most recent version.
> 
> As you said, you need 2.6.32.2 or newer for your graphics drivers, so
> 2.6.32.3 would be best for you.  For my work box I might be stuck to
> 2.6.27.x or whatever VMware officially supports.
> 


Ahh, that makes sense, I hadn;t thought about that. I tend to only use 
VirtualBox and the OSE built for my personal distro at that, so I hadn't 
considered commercial app support.

Thanks for the insight.

nathan