<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Yeah, I see what you mean...Most news sites cite 4.4LTS and 4.14LTS being moved from 2 years to 6 years. Some sites are surely implying hard that LTS by definition means 6 years instead of the old 2 year cycle. GKH did say that 4.4 is now 6 years to more logically support the mobile ecosystem. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>Interestingly, this site says 4.14 is EOL Jan 2020 --</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html">https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">which is pretty close to GKH saying that 4.14 is EOL in 2019 as per that page you cited.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The LTS = 6 years implication has been circulating since at least November last year and yet, there seems to be no current clarification from GKH to quell the perception that LTS means 6 years. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">My bad, fake news. Sorry.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 1:32 PM, doug moen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doug@moens.org" target="_blank">doug@moens.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Can you give a reference for kernel 4.14 being supported for 6 years? The official announcement says 2 years, which means until the end of 2019.<div><a href="http://kroah.com/log/blog/2017/09/06/4-dot-14-equals-equals-this-years-lts-kernel/" target="_blank">http://kroah.com/log/blog/<wbr>2017/09/06/4-dot-14-equals-<wbr>equals-this-years-lts-kernel/</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 January 2018 at 12:04, Ron Singh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Now if only Ubuntu would use the 4.14LTS kernel(supported by the kernel folks for 6 years!) instead of the likely 4.15 NON-LTS kernel. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Personally I would feel more comfortable knowing the kernel folks have my back on the 4.14LTS(6 years!) kernel than Ubuntu maintaining the 4.15 kernel for their 18.04LTS release.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_870702268127106522m_4440426381408993055gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 8:24 AM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><div dir="ltr">OK, I'm not sure what my opinion is on this just yet.. need time to process!<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/xorg-will-default-display-server-ubuntu-18-04-lts" target="_blank">http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/201<wbr>8/01/xorg-will-default-display<wbr>-server-ubuntu-18-04-lts</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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