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Reading that again today in the context of "Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work", Android could have been a prime helper of LTS ker
by lloeki 3y ago
Reading that again today in the context of "Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work", Android could have been a prime helper of LTS kernel maintenance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37591050 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37591050
- murderfs 3y agoAndroid was the prime helper of LTS kernel maintenance. They're the entire reason that LTS kernels even exist! https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/jiky5j/linux_510_is_the_next_lts_kernel/ga9qmdj/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/jiky5j/linux_510_is_...
- lloeki 3y agoOh! so I guess the plan didn't exactly work out as expected :/ So I guess if something as sizeable and impactful as Android can't reliably move the needle towards 7 to 10 years of maintained stability then the only way forward is a few select ones providing forked stability and the remainder has to continually upgrade to keep being maintained.