New kernel policy at Canonical coming soon

[Bobbie Sellers]

Hi you U.Users,

So I read about Ubuntu to keep up on things in case someone
using Ubuntu asks me something. It seems as though no one
is talking about what is going on.

Future Ubuntu Releases Will Ship with the Latest and Greatest Linux
Kernel Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracle Oriole" will be the first release to ship
with the latest upstream kernel and it will be powered by Linux 6.11.
by Marius Nestor August 11, 2024

Canonical has finally given up and changed its policy for kernel version
selection on Ubuntu releases, finally delivering the latest and greatest
Linux kernel series starting with Ubuntu 24.10 in October 2024.

Ubuntu is probably the only distribution out there that doesn’t offer
users access to the very latest kernels, at least not officially and
not in an easy manner. Shipping a new Ubuntu release with the latest
and greatest Linux kernel was probably one of the most requested
features of the Ubuntu community. Full article at URL below:
<https://9to5linux.com/future-ubuntu-releases-will-ship-with-the-latest-and-greatest-linux-kernel>

bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.06- Linux 6.6.45-Plasma 5.27.11

[rbowman]

Post by Bobbie Sellers
Ubuntu is probably the only distribution out there that doesn’t offer
users access to the very latest kernels, at least not officially and not
in an easy manner. Shipping a new Ubuntu release with the latest and
greatest Linux kernel was probably one of the most requested features of
the Ubuntu community.

Yawn... My Ubuntu 22.04.4 box has Linux 6.5.0-44-generic. My Fedora 40
box seems to get a new kernel every few days and is at 6.10.3. It will
probably be 6.10.4 before the week is out. Looking at the changelog I see
a number of fixes and I'm happy to see the kernel being so actively
supported but in my personal life I'm not sure if any of those fixes has
benefited me. Both systems are stable although Fedora 40 with Plasma 6 was
a little rocky for a while.

[stepore]

<snip> Both systems are stable although Fedora 40 with Plasma 6 was
a little rocky for a while.

A little 'rocky', you say? :-)

https://rockylinux.org/

[rbowman]

Post by stepore

<snip> Both systems are stable although Fedora 40 with Plasma 6 was a
little rocky for a while.

A little 'rocky', you say? :-)
https://rockylinux.org/

That would be a better choice for a production machine. Very ancient
history -- I soured on Red Hat Linux (not RHEL) with the 7.0 release of
gcc '2.96' which was their patched version of 2.95.2 because they didn't
want to wait for 3.0. Among its other quirks it couldn't compile the
kernel so they had to include kgcc. I never bothered to track it down but
I believe going to UTF-8 by default caused problems with Python, or maybe
they had rolled their own Python.

I had a machine sitting around with a very much out of date OpenSUSE 13.2
and decided to revisit the Red Hat world with the Fedora KDE spin. My main
home machine remained Ubuntu 22.04 plus a Debian 11 (Bullseye) at work so
I could afford to work with any quirks. 39 wasn't bad but 40 had issues,
with the Plasma shell crashing. Quite a few patches later and it
stabilized.

I'm not a fan of the latest, greatest. Too many times it has proven to be
not so great without offering a real advantage. I don't think the kernel
will be a problem judging from the Fedora updates but it certainly
wouldn't be on my list of most requested features.

[Marco Moock]

Post by Bobbie Sellers
Canonical has finally given up and changed its policy for kernel
version selection on Ubuntu releases, finally delivering the latest
and greatest Linux kernel series starting with Ubuntu 24.10 in
October 2024.

A good change. Less "new hardware doesn't work" problems.