While it’s been years since I cared what kernel ran because I now just the distro handle that I still found this really interesting. It’s always neat to hear from a respected source how they do things.
The divide between the “continuous deployment” world and the embedded Linux “LTS” world is interesting. Would be amazing if some company decides to merge these worlds and make, say, a phone that updates to a new nightly kernel build every day. Purism could do this :)
Most people probably, but pretty much all LineageOS users run nightlies. Which aren’t really “unstable” from my experience. The point is getting improvements fast.
I don’t believe in “stability by using old stuff” (like centos and debian stable). They’re not “stable”, just “outdated”.
CentOS and Debian are stable in the sense of not changing. It’s very useful to be able to install an OS on your computer(s), then know that it will stay the same for X years, with the exception of truly important (e.g. security) updates. It may not be “improving”, but then again, especially when it comes to UI, a lot of people just want it to stay the same so they can get on with their lives.
This advice goes for everything, except “use your distro version”.
The practice of “distros” to maintain the version they had at the release + backport anything that sounds security-related is detrimental to security IMHO.
It’s very often that security problems are not reported as such, because people writing software aren’t necessarily good at writing exploits.
While it’s been years since I cared what kernel ran because I now just the distro handle that I still found this really interesting. It’s always neat to hear from a respected source how they do things.
The divide between the “continuous deployment” world and the embedded Linux “LTS” world is interesting. Would be amazing if some company decides to merge these worlds and make, say, a phone that updates to a new nightly kernel build every day. Purism could do this :)
What would be the point? Most people want their devices to be stable, right?
Most people probably, but pretty much all LineageOS users run nightlies. Which aren’t really “unstable” from my experience. The point is getting improvements fast.
I don’t believe in “stability by using old stuff” (like centos and debian stable). They’re not “stable”, just “outdated”.
CentOS and Debian are stable in the sense of not changing. It’s very useful to be able to install an OS on your computer(s), then know that it will stay the same for X years, with the exception of truly important (e.g. security) updates. It may not be “improving”, but then again, especially when it comes to UI, a lot of people just want it to stay the same so they can get on with their lives.
This advice goes for everything, except “use your distro version”.
The practice of “distros” to maintain the version they had at the release + backport anything that sounds security-related is detrimental to security IMHO. It’s very often that security problems are not reported as such, because people writing software aren’t necessarily good at writing exploits.