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Linux Kernel 4.1 Will Be an LTS Release

Posted by timothy on from the why-back-in-the-day-you'll-be-able-to-say dept.

New submitter prisoninmate writes: The Linux Foundation's LinuxLTSI (Long-Term Support Initiative) group has confirmed on Twitter that the next LTS version of the Linux kernel will be 4.1. The information has also been confirmed by Greg Kroah-Hartman, a renowned kernel developer who is currently maintaining several kernel branches, including a few LTS ones. When Linux kernel 4.1 is released, it will become the LTS version of 2015 and the most advanced long-term support release. This is significant because the LTSI releases are (or will be) everywhere, in a "Linux is everywhere" sense. As the initiative's page puts it, "The LTSI tree is expected to be a usable base for the majority of embedded systems, as well as the base for ecosystem players (e.g., semiconductor vendors, set-vendors, software component vendors, distributors, and system/application framework providers). ... The goal is to reduce the number of private trees currently in use in the CE industry and encourage more collaboration and sharing of development resources."

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  1. The CE Industry? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Jargon a little harder, asswipes! That's Consumer Electronics for those of us not in manufacturing.

    1. Re:The CE Industry? by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Funny

      ITWAE (In Technolgy We Acronym Everything)

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  2. Here's looking at you, Android by allquixotic · · Score: 2

    "Reduce the number of private trees" --> Yeah, like the ancient (by mainline standards) kernels in most releases of Android... The sooner GOOG learns how to play nice with the rest of the Linux developers and get their customizations contributed upstream, the better off we'll all be. Though, admittedly, AOSP is doing a pretty decent job of that nowadays. The more egregious sinners are the device manufacturers.

  3. Skynet by SirMasterboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guess it means this picture makes sense and we are all doomed soon.

    https://lh5.googleusercontent....

  4. Re:Er... how old is this message? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not quite yet - still on 4.1-rc6, final version not yet released.

    (At least as far as kernel.org is concerned).

  5. Release number by sr180 · · Score: 2

    You know what would have been a good candidate for LTS? 4!
    Not necessarily the release itself but the number. The numbers are arbitrary so just make them the lts releases. Rather than 4.1 or 4.13 or 5.9..

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  6. 2-3 Years is NOT Long-Term by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When will the industry realize that for an embedded system long-term is not 2 years but more like 30 years? When these systems are built into buildings, cars, aircraft, etc. they are expected to last for a long time.

    1. Re:2-3 Years is NOT Long-Term by TFlan91 · · Score: 2

      I don't think "buildings, cars, aircraft, etc" would ever put a vanilla version of linux in their systems and expect a third party to 100% maintain them. That's just bad business. Give and take.