| 1 | Information for people packaging the Guest Additions for Linux distributions
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| 2 | ============================================================================
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| 3 | We strongly recommend that people packaging the Guest Additions for Linux
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| 4 | distributions track the latest stable version rather than staying with a given
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| 5 | major release number for the life-time of the distribution. The major number
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| 6 | is more relevant for the host software (the actual VirtualBox application)
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| 7 | than for the Linux Additions, which are developed more continuously.
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| 9 | We sometimes have two stable versions at one time - one with more features and
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| 10 | a long-term stable version from the previous major release, which has less
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| 11 | features but a code base which has had longer to mature. While this is also
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| 12 | less relevant for the Additions, you can find the current long-term stable
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| 13 | release version number at
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| 14 | http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/LATEST-STABLE.TXT
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