On 04/09/2018 09:03 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2018-04-09 02:50, George from the tribe wrote:
Ok, I am confused. The last thread talked about the kernel being used in Leap 15 that is coming out, as being kernel 4.12.
Yes.
Then this website that was linked on the thread:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-kernel-4-12-reached-end-of-life-users-a...
talks about how kernel 4.12 has reached end of life and everyone should move to 4.13.
Remember that the Leap kernel, being the same as the SLE kernel, is heavily patched. Quite different than the upstream kernel of the same number.
So I looked on my desktop running 42.3 with all the latest updates, and this is my kernel: > uname -r 4.4.120-45-default
Heavily patched.
Then I looked on my laptop running 42.3 with all the latest updates as of a week ago, which uses the kernel:stable repository, and this is the kernel it is using: > uname -r 4.15.15-1.g4904fc3-default
So if 4.12 has reached end of life, then 4.4 (which is what is available in the distribution repos for 42.3) must be really old. But 4.15, which is available from the kernel:stable repository, is far out in the future and not yet being really developed.
My conclusions there must be wrong, but why? Is there something to the way they number the kernels that I am missing here? Does openSUSE have a different numbering scheme than the rest of the linux world?
I doubt that 4.12 is EOL.
Then you must know that SLES, and thus Leap, can not use the latest kernel. A decision is made, then thoroughly tested during many months in an expensive process. Thus the version is not changed.
You have to think in terms of "why does SLE use the kernel it uses", not in terms of openSUSE. We simply use the same kernel that they decide to use, whichever it is. That's a fundamental characteristic of Leap.
Ok, makes sense now. Thanks. -- George Box: 42.3 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 42.3 | Gnome 3.20 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 42.3 | Gnome 3.20 | Core i5 | 64 | 8GB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org