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. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org