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  • Re: Panic! at the distro ?

    From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to Yrrah on Fri Jul 8 09:13:01 2022
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    Yrrah wrote:
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    "How a botched kernel patch broke Ubuntu - and why it may happen again" Article: <https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/08/kernel_patch_borked_ubuntu_systems>

    Panic? Really?

    One of the comments to that article says that he runs Mint and he
    *always* compiles the latest release from kernel.org and uses that
    instead of his distro's. Hmmm.

    The other person whose blog I read who is 'perpetually' compiling things
    is Barry Kauler who builds everything for Easy OS these days from/with
    (a fork of) OpenEmbedded/Yocto.

    I don't see anything 'surprising' about glitches popping up when you
    want both LTS as well as 'updates'.

    Or point releases vs rolling.


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    Mike Easter

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  • From Yrrah@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 8 17:47:13 2022
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    "How a botched kernel patch broke Ubuntu - and why it may happen again" Article: <https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/08/kernel_patch_borked_ubuntu_systems>

    Panic? Really?

    Yrrah

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  • From Mark Bourne@21:1/5 to Yrrah on Fri Jul 8 19:57:37 2022
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    Yrrah wrote:
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    "How a botched kernel patch broke Ubuntu - and why it may happen again" Article: <https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/08/kernel_patch_borked_ubuntu_systems>

    Panic? Really?

    Don't panic ;o) Register articles often have humorous headlines. If
    the wording and punctuation is a bit strange, it's often a pun on a song
    title or similar - in this case it looks like "Panic! at the Disco".

    Though it does nicely demonstrate why Linux keeps multiple kernels
    around. If an update fails to boot you can at least boot into the
    previous kernel to remove the broken one and/or update again once a
    fixed version is available.

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    Mark.

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