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Re:What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 by boomboomsubban on Friday May 20, 2022 @01:27PM (#31450327)
I don't see why that would explain why they picked 5.14 rather than the LTS kernel of 5.15, unless LTS support regularly breaks API/ABI compatibility.
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Re:What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 by awill on Saturday May 21, 2022 @09:04AM (#31457502)
It is because they don't need the community's help. They have a huge kernel team, and do all their own backporting. The RHEL 5.14 kernel is quite different from the vanilla 5.14 kernel, making the community's help not that useful.
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Re:What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 by mkovach on Friday May 20, 2022 @02:52PM (#31451171)
That part I couldn't tell you, but I haven't look into it much lately.
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