| Re: Linux longterm support for next years [message #45099 is a reply to message #45024] |
Sun, 29 January 2012 00:09  |
Ales
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Registered: May 2009
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This post to the devel list is missinformed. The author isn't familiar with the current state of OpenVZ project and it's goals.
What I have learned during the years of using OpenVZ is, that the project concentrates on supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and it's clones such as CentOS and Scientific Linux) and also submits pathches to the upstream vanilla kernel.
So, you will always find up to date RHEL kernels with OpenVZ patchset added. As you can see if you follow the links on the OpenVZ web page, current kernels for RHEL 4, 5 and 6 are available and get updated all the time.
Vanilla kernels such as 2.6.32 and others serve as development kernels and nobody from the OpenVZ project ever claimed they'll be supported for long.
As for getting a more recent 3.x kernel patched & published, there was a blog post (from Kir, I think?) explaining why isn't it happening right now. It also explains future OpenVZ plans. Search for it, it's all there...
To sum it up, the project is far from dead, it's very much alive and quite up to date. Hope this helps to clarify some of your questions and concerns.
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