Linux kernel 2 year LTS support. What do you think?

The Linux LTS kernel is only going to have a two year support from now. What are your thought? I think Debian and Ubuntu users might a little annoyed by this.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/linux-gives-up-on-6-year-lts-thats-fine-for-pcs-bad-for-android/

That's going to affect Mint too?

But Ubuntu and Mint keep with kernals a bit behind the main Linux one anyay don't they? I'd guess the major distros will do some of their own kernel support to keep out-dated kernels secure* for longer.

*if your system is working, then only security updates to the kernel could ever be needed, any non-security update isn't going to truly matter

Ain't no big deal lock the kernel and if needed change it manually.

That's going to affect Mint too?

 

But Ubuntu and Mint keep with kernals a bit behind the main Linux one anyay don't they? I'd guess the major distros will do some of their own kernel support to keep out-dated kernels secure* for longer.

 

*if your system is working, then only security updates to the kernel could ever be needed, any non-security update isn't going to truly matter

Yeah that's my concern too, especially Debian based distros .

The Linux LTS kernel is only going to have a two year support from now. What are your thought? I think Debian and Ubuntu users might a little annoyed by this.
 
 
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/linux-gives-up-on-6-year-lts-thats-fine-for-pcs-bad-for-android/

Well, it's always been the case; nobody's holding a gun to your head & forcing you to use a new kernel. They're there, they have new fixes for stuff baked-in, and they're easily available. But as The-Toolman points out, if you're using a specific kernel version that's working really well for you, it's simple enough to lock it & keep an eye on things yourself.

It's a fact that for older hardware, successive newer kernels are as like as not to suddenly drop support for a piece of hardware. If you really need a specific piece of hardware to work - and KEEP working - it's simple enough to keep a "standalone" system running, disconnected from the Internet, just FOR that.

For us in Puppyland, using the single-user model, being the admin of your own system, and being more "geeky" than most Linux users (because it's a hobbyist system, when all's said & done), sticking with an older kernel is rather safer than it would be for the great unwashed public. We're constantly monitoring stuff on a daily basis, and if you think summat untoward might have happened during the course of your most recent session, then.....don't save it. Let it disappear into cyberspace....

(*shrug...*)

Mike.

Edited by Mike_Walsh, 13 October 2023 - 06:34 AM.

But as The-Toolman points out, if you're using a specific kernel version that's working really well for you, it's simple enough to lock it & keep an eye on things yourself.

 

Mike.

But but Mike we would have to use that that scary black box to lock the kernel.   

Hmm I guess one upside to this all distros will be more cutting edge so better hardware compatible.

Maybe Debian and Canonical could make their own three year support LTS kernel?

And back port the newer kernels into it.