Ubuntu 18.04's Heavily Patched Kernel Opens Door To Lockdown Bypass, Breaks Secure Boot

[anarki2]

apt install linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge

And there you go, kernel 5.4. It's really not that hard, people. Not using a HWE kernel on Ubuntu LTS is stupid.

[uxmkt]

I really hope you mean 5.6.x series. But there's probably even more people on the 5.4.x branch since that's currently both the kernel.org LTS kernel and Ubuntu's LTS kernel.

No, I did mean—save for an orthographic error—3.16. Which is advertised as "longterm"/LTS on kernel.org.

[tildearrow]

So this delay happens because they are retarded?

Noun


retard (plural retards)

1. Retardation; delay.

Yep.

[Azrael5]

Noun


retard (plural retards)

1. Retardation; delay.

Yep.

What's the meaning of retarded as adjective?

[CochainComplex]

No, I did mean—save for an orthographic error—3.16. Which is advertised as "longterm"/LTS on kernel.org.

I guess 3.16 is most likely for android and lazy phone vendors not upgrading their HAL

[Charlie68]

But these distributions are intentionally making it harder on themselves and that directly increases the likelihood of human error. Instead of a bunch of eyes on the problem, everyone is looking at different places.

Why do you think they do it? Do you think they do it because they enjoy having to worry about it by increasing their work? Or more likely since the release cycles of the kernels are different from the release cycles of the distributions, are they forced to do so?
It seems obvious to me that if they could use the Lts kernel and would not increase their workload, there are things that cannot be done.
In addition, Leap 15.2 is not a new version of Leap, but it is a service pack, updating the kernel to 5.3. * Will only be kept for 12 months or so.

[archkde]

I guess 3.16 is most likely for android and lazy phone vendors not upgrading their HAL

No, that was 3.18. 3.16 is for Debian oldoldstable.

[archkde]

4.15 had much better AMD drivers than 4.14: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...PU-DC-Accepted

That's what HWE kernels are for on Ubuntu.

[skeevy420]

Why do you think they do it? Do you think they do it because they enjoy having to worry about it by increasing their work? Or more likely since the release cycles of the kernels are different from the release cycles of the distributions, are they forced to do so?
It seems obvious to me that if they could use the Lts kernel and would not increase their workload, there are things that cannot be done.
In addition, Leap 15.2 is not a new version of Leap, but it is a service pack, updating the kernel to 5.3. * Will only be kept for 12 months or so.

I assume because it varies. Sometimes it's because drivers are released/updated after the LTS, sometimes it's bad timing.

It's not like any, possibly very many, of us here actually sit on these committees to know why they make some of the choices they make so all we can do is guess and speculate.

[elatllat]

apt install linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge

And there you go, kernel 5.4. It's really not that hard, people. Not using a HWE kernel on Ubuntu LTS is stupid.

Nope; Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS fails to provide any kernels that are maintained upstream:

while read P ; do apt show "$P" 2>/dev/null | grep Version ; done < <(apt search linux-signed-image 2>/dev/null | grep -P "^l" | perl -pe 's/\/.*//g') | sort -ru
Version: 5.3.0.59.113
Version: 5.3.0.53.110
Version: 5.3.0.1028.25
Version: 5.3.0.1024.22
Version: 5.0.0.1034.38
Version: 5.0.0.1021.26
Version: 4.15.0.1089.60
Version: 4.15.0.106.94
Version: 4.15.0.1045.54

curl -s https://www.kernel.org/ | grep strong | perl -pe 's/.*<strong>//g;s/<.*//g' | grep -P "^\d"
5.8-rc1
5.7.4
5.6.19
5.4.47
4.19.128
4.14.184
4.9.227
4.4.227
3.16.85