On 2018-07-29 05:09, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 07/28/2018 03:59 AM, Frans de Boer wrote:
As is custom with previous releases of opensuse, leap 15 also has a unsupported and in linux terms ancient os embraced. I just wonder, why not use a LTS linux instead of an OS the opensuse developers have to maintain themself?
Frans,
I have never understood this myself. LTS is at 4.14.56 or so, and would work fine. I think the only reason suse spends about a billion man-hours with backports on monkeying with the kernel -- it that gives them complete version control. Meaning, they are not automatically forced to 4.16 when LTS moves there. That's just a guess. I've never understood the benefit of directing the immense amount of resources suse/opensuse does to a kernel that just could just as well be an off-the-shelf LTS kernel with a few custom config settings.
It has been explained many times. openSUSE uses the SUSE (SLES) kernel, and this one, once a candidate version is chosen, undergoes a period of testing with paying customers to verify that it works with them. This process takes months, thousands of man-hours and on sites. They are not going to repeat the costly process just because there is a new kernel upstream. An off the shelf kernel can not be used unless upstream does that costly testing (certification) procedure. <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Leap/Leap_kernel_version> -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)