The treadmill is real
The treadmill is real
Posted Aug 12, 2026 0:37 UTC (Wed) by richarson (subscriber, #74226)In reply to: The treadmill is real by yodermk
Parent article: Four weekend stable kernel updates
From my experience with AlmaLinux and Ubuntu (I work for a web hosting company), there's not much difference tracking upstream or distro kernels.
The new kernels just keep coming and we have to update and reboot, or risk our users and/or systems.
The new kernels just keep coming and we have to update and reboot, or risk our users and/or systems.
For shared hosting we have kernelcare which fortunately helps us avoid some reboots, or at least delay them.
For the rest of our infra, most of it is using some sort of HA so rolling upgrades and reboot without downtime is possible.
YMMV