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Re:Linux Kernel LTS release is now for 6 years instead of 2 by lbenes on Sunday October 08, 2017 @03:24PM (#15429533)
> The modus operandi should be to get upgrades to the current stable kernel frequently enough

How can you expect embedded manufactures to do this when Intel can't even keep it's CPU line stable on recent kernels. I have an Bay Trail tablet that I put Linux on, but was forced to move it back on to the ancient Android kernel that shipped with it because of this bug[1].

And if you think, these bugs only happen to Atom/Celron CPUs, think again. My Intel i3 laptop just started hard freeing with the latest 4.13 Kernel in Arch.[2]

As a hobbyist, i can deal, but there is no way you can expect small manufactures to deal with the constant influx of bugs introduced by kernel updates.

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051

[2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=230676

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Re:Linux Kernel LTS release is now for 6 years instead of 2 by ams6110 on Sunday October 08, 2017 @03:58PM (#15429690)
> there is no way you can expect small manufactures to deal with the constant influx of bugs introduced by kernel updates

Well then maybe they should not be in the business they are in.

As people so like to point out here, their inability to support the devices they make becomes an externality that all the users end up paying for, when they have to deal with security vulnerabilities that cannot be resolved.

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