Re:Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linu...
by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday March 05, 2026 @06:49PM
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I'll grant that changes leave the possibility of regressions, but that's true for minor patches too, so you already need a lab set up to catch those regressions, and if you've got a lab set up to catch regressions and engineers who can fix them, then you might as well take the bigger upgrades too.
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Re:Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linu...
by b112 on Friday March 06, 2026 @03:37AM
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then you might as well take the bigger upgrades too.
No? A specific patch for a vulnerability is often tiny, and upstream LTS kernel devs handles much testing.
You test for issues, but the scope is tiny. The amount of churn to a new kernel is massive.
It's not even close to the same work. And why do it? Whatever for?
New isn't a good reason.
Frankly, as long as the userland and kernel are getting security updates, who cares? Understand, this is a lot of work alone.