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Some kind of breakage is pretty common in random recent kernels. It might not affect you this time, but do you really want to risk it? So yes - you do want to
by o11c 3y ago
Some kind of breakage is pretty common in random recent kernels. It might not affect you this time, but do you really want to risk it?
So yes - you do want to be on an LTS kernel. But you only need to stay there for about a year until the next one is released and you can test it for a bit before deploying.
- josephcsible 3y ago> do you really want to risk it? That question applies to LTS kernels too. Do you really want to risk that a backport of an important fix won't introduce a problem that mainline didn't have? Do you really want to risk that there are no security vulnerabilities in old kernels that won't get noticed by maintainers since they were incidentally fixed by some non-security-related change in mainline?
- sambazi 3y agoso you want to trade in tailored and curated fixes in lts for acccidental and experimental fixes in bleeding-edge. go ahead
- josephcsible 3y agoMy work uses "tailored and curated fixes in lts" and at home I use "acccidental and experimental fixes in bleeding-edge". I've had way more stuff break because of the former than because of the latter, and not just with the kernel.