I've wondered about this too. Like, what's the advantage of it? It looks like they've gone back and forth on this. RHEL 7 and 6 used LTS kernels. Before that,

I've wondered about this too. Like, what's the advantage of it? It looks like they've gone back and forth on this. RHEL 7 and 6 used LTS kernels. Before that, RHEL 5 did its own thing instead of using the LTS. Of course, RHEL also supports these kernels for much longer than the original maintainers. RHEL 6 (released in 2010) still has another year of Extended Life-cycle Support into 2024, even though end-of-life for the 2.6.32 LTS kernel was in 2016. Looking at everything now, I see that Ubuntu 18.04 and 14.04 also chose non-LTS kernels. Interesting.