rhabarba@feddit.de to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agoLong-term support for Linux kernel to be cut as maintainence remains under strainwww.zdnet.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1146arrow-down11
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minus-squarePupBiru@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·10 months agowhich is kinda the point of LTS right? or does LTS for kernel mean additional things?
minus-squareempireOfLove@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·edit-210 months agoLTS means that the kernel will not recieve new features, but will receive security patches. Thus remaining stable with no breaking changes. 90% of android device manufacturers will drop in one kernel at launch day and then never, ever, ever touch it again. Fuck security, fuck the user.
minus-squarePupBiru@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·10 months agookay, so it seems as though disregarding android usage of LTS seems reasonable because whilst it shouldn’t be this way, nothing will actually change
minus-squareempireOfLove@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·10 months agoYeah android devices are a weird beast. They use Linux in name, but not in spirit, since the entire system is locked off from the typical user.
minus-squaregataloca@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·10 months agoAndroid is the evil version of Linux or the anti-Linux if you will.
minus-squareDickFiasco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·10 months agoWhat you’re referring to as anti-Linux is, in fact, anti-GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, anti-GNU plus anti-Linux…
minus-squareyum13241@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoRoot + Unlock BL + Custom ROM be like: Am I a fucking joke to you?
which is kinda the point of LTS right? or does LTS for kernel mean additional things?
LTS means that the kernel will not recieve new features, but will receive security patches. Thus remaining stable with no breaking changes.
90% of android device manufacturers will drop in one kernel at launch day and then never, ever, ever touch it again. Fuck security, fuck the user.
okay, so it seems as though disregarding android usage of LTS seems reasonable because whilst it shouldn’t be this way, nothing will actually change
Yeah android devices are a weird beast. They use Linux in name, but not in spirit, since the entire system is locked off from the typical user.
Android is the evil version of Linux or the anti-Linux if you will.
What you’re referring to as anti-Linux is, in fact, anti-GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, anti-GNU plus anti-Linux…
Root + Unlock BL + Custom ROMbe like: Am I a fucking joke to you?