On 2018-03-11 07:47, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 08/03/18 19:01, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Kaigue7 wrote:
Will Leap 15 keep Kernel 4.12 or will it get an upgrade to a more recent kernel once it's launched? Why not use the 4.14 LTS?
As others have pointed out Leap will use whatever SLE uses. The version number is actually not that meaningful as SUSE kernel engineers do a lot of backporting and hardware enablement.
If you have the chance to test Leap 15 please take this kernel under stress. If there are any issues please file bug reports. The majority of Leap kernel bugs are SLE kernel bugs so they have to be taken serious.
I have read what Peter Linnell wrote but still find it difficult to reconcile what he wrote with which kernel ought to be included in Leap 15 when it is released. The reason is that he is stressing why SUSE needs to have the 4.12.x kernel but we are talking about openSUSE which is supposed to be a Community effort and less likely (I am assuming) to be used in a commercial environment unlike SUSE.
Because the fundamental and crucial feature of openSUSE Leap is that it inherits code from SUSE. It is intentionally this way, the kernel and libc are important parts of that code, so the kernel will necessarily be the same. This is not going to change, because then Leap would not be Leap. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)