my little rant...

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 02:03:18PM +0100, Xen wrote:
> I'm still on 16.04. I still want to use kernel 4.6.
> 
> It's not available, we're on 4.10 now and 4.13 coming on.

Each kernel version we offer has to receive security support.  We have
teams of people doing this, and it takes real time, energy, and money,
all of which are limited resources.  It simply isn't viable to support
more than a small number of kernel versions at a time on any given
release.

> Whenever a version of (K)ubuntu is released the devs don't even wait to look
> at what they have done, they immediately rush on to the next thing.

It's always going to be the case that some bugs remain unfixed and users
are unsatisfied, pretty much no matter what, and I don't necessarily
think that our post-release support has always been everything it could
be either.  But really quite a lot of time and effort goes into issuing
updates to Ubuntu stable releases.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]