ur linux not long enough :((
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Long-term support for Linux kernel to be cut as maintenance remains under strain
The Open Source Summit provides an update on what's new in the Linux kernel and where it's going from here.
Turns out supporting stuff is
of hard work. From now on two years is going to be 
long term
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Why? Simple, Corbet explained: "There's really no point to maintaining it for that long because people are not using them." I agree. While I'm sure someone out there is still running 4.14 in a production Linux system, there can't be many of them.
LOLOLOL!
We've got a few still on 3.10 (RHEL7). We're currently updating to RHEL8 (4.18).
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@boomzilla but in the end that means Red Hat will have to provide that LTS maintenance anyway, right?
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@topspin I mean...yeah, and we're paying them for it. Looks like it's got support until next June. Just funny compared to that quote.
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The main purpose of 6 year LTS was Android support :
Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work
Linux's six-year long-term support was meant to help embedded devices.
.... phones take two years to be developed and the kernel is locked in near the beginning of the engineering process.
With only two years, the LTS kernel would be hitting end-of-life right when the phone finally shipped, and customers would use obsolete kernels for the lifetime of their devices.
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@Gern_Blaanston sounds suspiciously like a phone manufacturer problem.
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@boomzilla said in ur linux not long enough :((:
Why? Simple, Corbet explained: "There's really no point to maintaining it for that long because people are not using them." I agree. While I'm sure someone out there is still running 4.14 in a production Linux system, there can't be many of them.
LOLOLOL!
We've got a few still on 3.10 (RHEL7). We're currently updating to RHEL8 (4.18).
I’m on bleeding edge kernels.
My usb-c ports started behaving oddly last week. 
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@DogsB said in ur linux not long enough :((:
@Gern_Blaanston sounds suspiciously like a
phone manufacturerandroid people problem.FTF
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@boomzilla said in ur linux not long enough :((:
@topspin I mean...yeah, and we're paying them for it. Looks like it's got support until next June. Just funny compared to that quote.
Yeah and OEL 7 has support for a further 2 years IIRC.
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@loopback0 said in ur linux not long enough :((:
@boomzilla said in ur linux not long enough :((:
@topspin I mean...yeah, and we're paying them for it. Looks like it's got support until next June. Just funny compared to that quote.
Yeah and OEL 7 has support for a further 2 years IIRC.
Well, we only run OEL on boxes running Oracle. No idea what's on there, but we're currently working on updating the DB itself from 12 to 19.
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@boomzilla said in ur linux not long enough :((:
@loopback0 said in ur linux not long enough :((:
@boomzilla said in ur linux not long enough :((:
@topspin I mean...yeah, and we're paying them for it. Looks like it's got support until next June. Just funny compared to that quote.
Yeah and OEL 7 has support for a further 2 years IIRC.
Well, we only run OEL on boxes running Oracle. No idea what's on there, but we're currently working on updating the DB itself from 12 to 19.
Same here. We're doing the RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 migrations now (my team completed all of ours last week) but OEL 7 to OEL 8 is a future problem because even on kernel 3.10 it's supported for a couple of years longer.
@boomzilla said in ur linux not long enough :((:
we're currently working on updating the DB itself from 12 to 19.
We did that before 12 went EOL although for some reason that wasn't clear (as we have a ULA) we went 12 to 18 and then 18 to 19.
