Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Alejandro86 for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, October 24 news, at the previous European open source summit, Linux kernel developer Jonathan Corbet announced that the long-term support (LTS) time of the Linux kernel would be shortened from six years to two years. CTOnews.com had previously reported that Jonathan Corbet claimed at that time that the main reason for shortening the long-term support time of the Linux kernel was "lack of use and support."

In a blog post today, Canonical reiterated that they will stick to their ten-year support for the Ubuntu LTS version.

▲ source CanonicalCanonical claims that they have been the leading LTS provider of the Ubuntu Linux kernel for nearly two decades, and that they will continue to provide five-year security updates to the LTS kernel and extend the maintenance window to 10 years through extended security maintenance (ESM):

Canonical's dedicated engineering team maintains all Ubuntu kernels, manages the Linux kernel CVE, and applies patches for possible defects. High kernel reliability is at the core of our design and decision-making. Ubuntu is now widely used in production environments, and we will continue to improve kernel reliability over time.

After our rigorous testing, improvement and improvement, the Ubuntu kernel has become one of the most production-tested kernels in the computing environment.

The maintenance and support of Canonical is completely independent of the upstream LTS and will continue as before. Despite the changes in upstream LTS support, Canonical remains committed to providing reliable support for the Ubuntu kernel to ensure that the Linux community and enterprises can continue to rely on stable and secure software.

The Ubuntu LTS kernel is not always consistent with the Linux LTS kernel, and the Ubuntu LTS dot version usually remigrates newer kernel versions as part of its hardware HWE stack, and Canonical is able to support Ubuntu LTS for a decade even if the upstream Linux LTS kernel cycle support window is shortened.

In addition to Canonical, similar to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other major enterprise Linux distributions, the support window is not expected to be reduced due to a change in upstream kernel LTS policy.

Related reading: "due to" too much work ", the duration of Linux kernel LTS will be shortened from 6 years to 2 years.

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