LWN: Comments on "Stable kernel updates"

Stable kernel updates

bib — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:59:46 +0000

No, not me, but it is directed at the distro's who supply that kernel release.

Stable kernel updates

adobriyan — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 09:37:55 +0000

I've upgraded to KDE5 recently and let me tell you, frequent kernel upgrades are the least of desktop people worries.

Stable kernel updates

creemj — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 22:30:00 +0000

If you are running a distribution provided kernel then you are not a user of the stable kernel series and, thus, the recommendation to upgrade is not directed at you.

Stable kernel updates

bib — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 20:09:16 +0000

If you want Linux to succeed on the desktop, then telling users to upgrade, when the distro's don't, is not the way to do it.

Opensuse is still on 4.4.49.