Super long-term kernel support

Posted Mar 29, 2018 19:21 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Super long-term kernel support by JFlorian
Parent article: Super long-term kernel support

> I much prefer a "touch all the time policy". Sure you'll get fallout. So get better a dealing with it. It's going to happen eventually anyway.

"If it ain't broke, fix it till it is" :-)

If you're talking hardware that's expensive, you're not going to replace it. Why UPGRADE the kernel, when the majority of changes is adding new hardware drivers, if your system has no new hardware that needs it? And if it's not new drivers, the rest of the new code is pretty much equally useless FOR YOU.

Think about the story of when they dropped serial ports from hardware. Apparently Bill Gates' response to one customer's complaints was "well, buy new peripherals, then". 20 industrial machines, at $250K apiece??? All for the sake of $10 board in a computer?

Cheers,
Wol