Linux 6.6 Formally Becomes This Year's LTS Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.6 Formally Becomes This Year's LTS Kernel

As was expected but now made official: this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel is Linux 6.6...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Goes-LTS

[dlq84]

Someone's going to be disappointed.

[andyprough]

There were quite a few systems that could not be upgraded from 4.9 to 4.14 this past year. When 4.14 and 4.19 reach EOL, expect that a much larger number of systems are going to fail to work properly with newer kernels.

While it's good that newer machines are more energy efficient, the obverse is true about decisions like this increasing the rate of e-waste accumulation. Computers should be made to last much longer and to use fewer toxic and rare earth metal components. Constantly chasing Moore's Law speed increases at all costs is not without longterm harm for the environment and mankind.

[CommunityMember]

Someone's going to be disappointed.

There will always be features someone wishes had made it into the next LTS kernel.

Those people should have worked harder to actively contribute to move the feature they wanted into an earlier kernel.

[dlq84]

There were quite a few systems that could not be upgraded from 4.9 to 4.14 this past year. When 4.14 and 4.19 reach EOL, expect that a much larger number of systems are going to fail to work properly with newer kernels.

While it's good that newer machines are more energy efficient, the obverse is true about decisions like this increasing the rate of e-waste accumulation. Computers should be made to last much longer and to use fewer toxic and rare earth metal components. Constantly chasing Moore's Law speed increases at all costs is not without longterm harm for the environment and mankind.

So the choice is either new kernel or trash can? Why?

[Franco Castillo]

Someone's going to be disappointed.

Me 😂😂😂

[dlq84]

Me 😂😂😂

Better luck next year

[Malsabku]

Someone's going to be disappointed.

For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS the Kernel 6.7 would be better, since its closer to their release date.

[CommunityMember]

For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS the Kernel 6.7 would be better, since its closer to their release date.

Canonical is free to choose whatever kernel version they want for their Ubuntu LTS releases (just like RedHat does with their EL releases). If you want/need 6.7, contact your TAM (or DSE) and ask Canonical to consider it.

[ThomasD]

The first LTS kernel where TIOCSTI can be disabled