Ever get miffed reading about a major new Ubuntu release only to learn it doesn’t come with the newest Linux kernel? Well, that’ll soon be a thing of the past. Canonical’s announced a big shift in kernel selection process for future Ubuntu release, an “aggressive kernel version commitment policy†pivot that means it will ship the latest upstream kernel code in development at the time of a new Ubuntu release. Future Ubuntu releases will ship the latest upstream kernel, even if only in ‘Release Candidate’ status Yes, even if that upstream kernel hasn’t yet seen a formal stable release (and […]
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