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  • New kernel policy at Canonical coming soon

    From Bobbie Sellers@blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com to alt.os.linux.ubuntu on Tue Aug 13 15:55:01 2024
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    Hi you U.Users,

    So I read about Ubuntu to keep up on things in case someone
    using Ubuntu asks me something. It seems as though no one
    is talking about what is going on.

    Future Ubuntu Releases Will Ship with the Latest and Greatest Linux
    Kernel Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracle Oriole" will be the first release to ship
    with the latest upstream kernel and it will be powered by Linux 6.11.
    by Marius Nestor August 11, 2024

    Canonical has finally given up and changed its policy for kernel version selection on Ubuntu releases, finally delivering the latest and greatest
    Linux kernel series starting with Ubuntu 24.10 in October 2024.

    Ubuntu is probably the only distribution out there that doesn’t offer
    users access to the very latest kernels, at least not officially and
    not in an easy manner. Shipping a new Ubuntu release with the latest
    and greatest Linux kernel was probably one of the most requested
    features of the Ubuntu community. Full article at URL below: <https://9to5linux.com/future-ubuntu-releases-will-ship-with-the-latest-and-greatest-linux-kernel>

    bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.06- Linux 6.6.45-Plasma 5.27.11
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    b l i s s - S F 4 e v e r at D S L E x t r e m e dot com
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to alt.os.linux.ubuntu on Wed Aug 14 00:46:30 2024
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    On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:55:01 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    Ubuntu is probably the only distribution out there that doesn’t offer
    users access to the very latest kernels, at least not officially and not
    in an easy manner. Shipping a new Ubuntu release with the latest and
    greatest Linux kernel was probably one of the most requested features of
    the Ubuntu community.

    Yawn... My Ubuntu 22.04.4 box has Linux 6.5.0-44-generic. My Fedora 40
    box seems to get a new kernel every few days and is at 6.10.3. It will probably be 6.10.4 before the week is out. Looking at the changelog I see
    a number of fixes and I'm happy to see the kernel being so actively
    supported but in my personal life I'm not sure if any of those fixes has benefited me. Both systems are stable although Fedora 40 with Plasma 6 was
    a little rocky for a while.

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  • From stepore@stepore@be.here.now to alt.os.linux.ubuntu on Tue Aug 13 18:25:05 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.ubuntu

    On 8/13/24 17:46, rbowman wrote:
    <snip> Both systems are stable although Fedora 40 with Plasma 6 was
    a little rocky for a while.


    A little 'rocky', you say? :-)

    https://rockylinux.org/
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to alt.os.linux.ubuntu on Wed Aug 14 03:34:33 2024
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    On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:25:05 -0700, stepore wrote:

    On 8/13/24 17:46, rbowman wrote:
    <snip> Both systems are stable although Fedora 40 with Plasma 6 was a
    little rocky for a while.


    A little 'rocky', you say? :-)

    https://rockylinux.org/

    That would be a better choice for a production machine. Very ancient
    history -- I soured on Red Hat Linux (not RHEL) with the 7.0 release of
    gcc '2.96' which was their patched version of 2.95.2 because they didn't
    want to wait for 3.0. Among its other quirks it couldn't compile the
    kernel so they had to include kgcc. I never bothered to track it down but
    I believe going to UTF-8 by default caused problems with Python, or maybe they had rolled their own Python.

    I had a machine sitting around with a very much out of date OpenSUSE 13.2
    and decided to revisit the Red Hat world with the Fedora KDE spin. My main home machine remained Ubuntu 22.04 plus a Debian 11 (Bullseye) at work so
    I could afford to work with any quirks. 39 wasn't bad but 40 had issues,
    with the Plasma shell crashing. Quite a few patches later and it
    stabilized.

    I'm not a fan of the latest, greatest. Too many times it has proven to be
    not so great without offering a real advantage. I don't think the kernel
    will be a problem judging from the Fedora updates but it certainly
    wouldn't be on my list of most requested features.
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  • From Marco Moock@mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de to alt.os.linux.ubuntu on Wed Aug 14 21:38:48 2024
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    On 13.08.2024 um 15:55 Uhr Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    Canonical has finally given up and changed its policy for kernel
    version selection on Ubuntu releases, finally delivering the latest
    and greatest Linux kernel series starting with Ubuntu 24.10 in
    October 2024.

    A good change. Less "new hardware doesn't work" problems.
    --
    kind regards
    Marco

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