Backporting

Yes, Kanotix started as Knoppix spinoff, but now it is something vey different, to the point that Klaus Knopper is "backporting" many Kanotix features to Knoppix. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A: Linux distributors often have their own product lifecycle policy and may support their versions of OpenOffice. org for a shorter or longer period of time by "backporting" updates and bugfixes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Boeing keeps updating it and backporting technologies from newer models. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It also shows that practice of backporting fixes, altough much harder to do, is a better way to solve bugs. ❋ Ante Karamati (2006)

However, I couldn't wait for such a long time and backporting the fix for #4308 isn't completely straightforward. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While Red Hat has been backporting new Linux kernel features into its RHEL 5 point releases over the last three years, Burke noted that with RHEL 6, Red Hat is delivering even more new capabilities. ❋ Sean Michael Kerner (2010)

Due to technical constraints in backporting the app to existing devices, it isn't possible to offer further premium content such as Guide Michelin and Lonely Planet guides. ❋ Evan Selleck (2010)

And what about backporting IE 9's engine to XP, even in full software rendering mode (whose development would still be required for Vista/7's safe mode)? ❋ Ieblog (2010)

The differences between the various distributions are of a technical nature and have to do with backporting certain essentials Rx relies on, to the . ❋ Bart (2010)

I've tried removing pulse, installing oss, recompiling alsa, backporting alsa, backporting the linux kernel, and none of it has worked. ❋ Phytophilous (2010)

WorksWithU discusses the different options for backporting applications to older Ubuntu versions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Many thanks to Thomas Wouters for the original implementation and the very good set of tests that made backporting it trivially easy. pip install weakrefset ❋ Unknown (2010)

OpenOffice. org 3.2.1 changes to that code and after backporting the newer OpenOffice. org code, the bug now longer occurs for me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thanks to Tobias Reber for backporting FreeBSD 7.0 driver and adding WOL support. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also note that there are investigations currently underway to determine the viability of backporting these fixes to an upcoming release of MySQL ❋ Unknown (2009)

After more than one year of developement, porting code to KDE4 / Qt4 api, and backporting new features from KDE3 branch, digiKam is now available for KDE4 as beta. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Greg's] in the hospital, got a bad case of [backport fever]! Doctors says it could be another couple of release [cycles] before he recovers fully. ❋ MardiKroll (2020)