LTS

Posted May 20, 2025 18:05 UTC (Tue) by alspnost (guest, #2763)
Parent article: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 released

Wow, they're actually using an LTS kernel (v6.12) for the first time! Not some weird Frankenkernel, like they usually do. Although I assume there's still a mountain of RH-specific patches piled in there, so it might still be quite different to the vanilla 6.12? Still, looks like a nice release, and hopefully we'll be seeing Rocky 10 in short order.

LTS

Posted May 20, 2025 20:13 UTC (Tue) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link] (1 responses)

It's still a Frankenkernel. It's just a coincidence, like RHEL6 had 2.6.32; patches are backported into the RHEL10 kernel straight from Linus's tree rather than from the stable trees.

In fact there are more patches than before because the kernel's so-called "CVEs" are assigned as soon as something remotely looking like a fix appears in Linus's tree, and FedRAMP requires triaging and possibly backporting the fix even if the patch isn't applied to the upstream 6.12 kernel series.

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Posted May 20, 2025 23:08 UTC (Tue) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648) [Link]

Ugh. Nice to know dysfunctional security theater is alive and well.