LTS releases should probably stick to a kernel that will have long-term stable support. One example is GKH's (Greg Kroah-Hartman's) stability kernels: http://w

LTS releases should probably stick to a kernel that will have long-term stable support. One example is GKH's (Greg Kroah-Hartman's) stability kernels: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2013/08/longterm-kernel-310 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2013/... Understandably launching ubuntu 14.04 with and older kernel is less than ideal, but launching on a kernel that will lose support in 6 months is probably a worse idea.