Comment by xenophonf
4 days ago
> quite annoying
It's also quite stable, which you'd think more people would prize given the recent and on-going supply chain attacks.
4 days ago
> quite annoying
It's also quite stable, which you'd think more people would prize given the recent and on-going supply chain attacks.
Stable as in unchanging, sure.
Stable can also mean "you get to keep all the bugs present in this version for the next 4+ years"
Or worse, the kernel moves beyond the package in the repo so a year and a half later it doesn't even work anymore.
VirtualBox is really bad about this.
Given the recent dramatic uptick in vulnerability discoveries, it's also prone to being quite insecure...
LTS still typically get security updates. That's what the support in long term support means.
This gets thrown around a lot, but it's not entirely true. Depending on the particular distro, only certain core packages are likely to get updates on LTS releases. Non-core packages may just get left to rot until the next LTS release. Specifically Ubuntu follows this. A lot of their non-core packages just get imported from Debian and then just sit unmaintained until next release (this goes doubly if not using Ubuntu Pro).
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