[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu going back to Xorg

[Ron Singh]

Yeah, I see what you mean...Most news sites cite 4.4LTS and 4.14LTS being
moved from 2 years to 6 years. Some sites are surely implying hard that LTS
by definition means 6 years instead of the old 2 year cycle. GKH did say
that 4.4 is now 6 years to more logically support the mobile ecosystem.

Interestingly, this site says 4.14 is EOL Jan 2020 --
https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
which is pretty close to GKH saying that 4.14 is EOL in 2019 as per that
page you cited.

The LTS = 6 years implication has been circulating since at least November
last year and yet, there seems to be no current clarification from GKH to
quell the perception that LTS means 6 years.

My bad, fake news. Sorry.


Thanks,

Ron Singh


On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 1:32 PM, doug moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> Can you give a reference for kernel 4.14 being supported for 6 years? The
> official announcement says 2 years, which means until the end of 2019.
> http://kroah.com/log/blog/2017/09/06/4-dot-14-equals-
> equals-this-years-lts-kernel/
>
> On 26 January 2018 at 12:04, Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Now if only Ubuntu would use the 4.14LTS kernel(supported by the kernel
>> folks for 6 years!) instead of the likely 4.15 NON-LTS kernel.
>>
>> Personally I would feel more comfortable knowing the kernel folks have my
>> back on the 4.14LTS(6 years!) kernel than Ubuntu maintaining the 4.15
>> kernel for their 18.04LTS release.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ron Singh
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 8:24 AM, CrankyOldBugger <
>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> OK, I'm not sure what my opinion is on this just yet.. need time to
>>> process!
>>>
>>> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/xorg-will-default-display
>>> -server-ubuntu-18-04-lts
>>>
>>>
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