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They won't add features but will fix bugs in it. Like distributions with long term support. You may ask why this matters, but I just installed 6.1 in Debian (t
by olau 4y ago
They won't add features but will fix bugs in it. Like distributions with long term support.
You may ask why this matters, but I just installed 6.1 in Debian (testing) a couple of days ago, and it has a fatal bug in a graphics driver I think (AMD iGPU Ryzen 5) - as soon as I start a browser in GNOME, the signal to the monitor is lost and I have to reset. I installed 5.18 in the console, and it works fine.
I haven't figured out how to report the bug, but I also have a hunch that it's probably already fixed. And that's why you make these long-term support releases. You stop refactoring/adding features that destabilize the code, and just fix bugs, and end up with a well-tested fossil. In theory you'd have automated tests of everything, and then you wouldn't need these fossils. But in practice you don't.