Originally posted by skeevy420
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You can build a kernel module for RHEL 6.0 and it will work unmodified with RHEL 6.10 which was released a decade later. Likewise with Android for your phone.
Probably Debian maintains a single kernel version throughout a single release (I don't know/remember) but Debian does not guarantee API/ABI compatibility.
BTW I've been using the vanilla kernel, e.g. the exact version offered from kernel.org on my desktop for as long as I've been using Linux. On my laptop I use what Fedora offers because of secure boot. Yeah, I can create my own certificate and sign the kernel and I even did that for a year or two but then I gave up considering the amount of work. Besides my laptop is too weak to compile kernels - takes too much time and it gets too hot. It's based on Intel Core i5 6200U which is just too bad nowadays.
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