Re:Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
by chrisvalleybay on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:54AM
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There has been a workaround available since nov 2: https://ubuntu.com/blog/fixes-available-in-proposed-pocket-f...
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Re:Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
by InsidiousWombat on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:03AM
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The fix is to install Debian
Re:Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
by pedro_caetano on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:27AM
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Debian also had a CVE (yesterday?) on a MITM affecting APT?
Arguably also affecting Ubuntu by Corollary with APT.
Re:Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
by fodkodrasz on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:40AM
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Maybe... IBM RHEL. Or Arch. Or NixOS. Or Fedora. Anything that doesn't ship apt.
Re:Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
by tlamponi on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:56AM
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They all had flaws and holes in their package manager in the past, or how are they magically 100% secure?
Re:Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
by icedchai on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:53AM
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Or build your own kernel from kernel.org and install that.
I moved one of my Ubuntu dev boxes to 7.3.1.
Re:Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
by throw0101c on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:28AM
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> since nov 2
Since October 26 (noble) and 28 (resolute), when the kernel versions in question hit "proposed". November 2 is just the weblog post, but the solution was available the week before.