Developers and technology are probably your biggest factors involved. I
don't remembering reading anything from Linus or anyone else that states,
"we'll support each dot release for X months/years.

Wikipedia has a pretty good article that I think you'd find interesting if
you haven't read it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Timeline



On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Nathan England <nathan@nmecs.com> wrote:

>
> Hello Hello,
>
> The current state of kernel versions is a bit perplexing. I have
> google'd a bit but not found anything either recent or what I consider
> reliable.
> Which the EOL of the 3.5 series kernels, does anyone know what the
> preferred long term kernel is? I know 3.4 was said to be a long term
> support kernel, but I thought I read somewhere that 3.5 was as well. So
> now I'm confused...
>
> Your thoughts appreciated.
>
> Nathan
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