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Linux 4.3 Reached End of Life; Users Need To Move To Linux 4.4
prisoninmate writes: As some of you may know, Linux 4.3 was not an LTS (Long Term Support) release, so the last maintenance build is now Linux kernel 4.3.6, as announced earlier by Greg Kroah-Hartman, a renowned kernel developer and maintainer. While he's telling users of the Linux 4.3 series to update to the 4.3.6 point release, he also urges them, especially OS vendors, to move to the most advanced stable series, in this case, Linux kernel 4.4 LTS, which just received its second point release the other day. However, it appears that Linux kernel 4.3.6 is quite an update, as it changes a total of 197 files, with 2310 insertions and 963 deletions, bringing some much-needed improvements.
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Forget 4.3.x vs 4.4.x - I'm still on 2.6.x you insensitive penguins!
Everybody who is anybody who runs Linux knows that it is the frequent updates that protects from exploits. Seriously now, who here is stupid enough to still be running a 4.3 kernel?
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Electrostatic spray is to use solid powder solvent instead of the liquid form, the high voltage makes powder coating negatively charged, With the help of electrostatic attraction, it is adsorbed on the surface of the workpiece to be coated, it is the coating method obtained after being heated and melted (or cured). Electrostatic spray is a new technology, what the powder coating we used does not contain a solvent and a dispersion medium and other liquid ingredients, when we use it, there is no need of dilution and adjusting the viscosity, itself can not flow, after melting it can flow, it will not like a liquid coating adhered to the surface of the workpiece. Therefore, electrostatic spray coating has the features of high efficiency, excellent film properties, solvent evaporation, little environmental pollution, energy consumption less, simple process, short production cycle, low cost, easy to paint automation etc..
FIPFG coating process can be directly coating the surface of the electrostatic spray products, to be closely integrated with the coating surface with a high degree of protection, good adhesion, anti-aging performance advantages. However, if the powder contains a small amount of PTFE and wax wrinkle agent, it will significantly affect the adhesion of the strip, therefore, we should pay close attention. At present, the technology has been widely used by the electrical industry.
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Volkswagen is recalling about 850,000 VW and Audi vehicles to replace Takata frontal airbag inflators that can explode when the airbags deploy. The recall follows a separate recall of VW and Audi vehicles with Takata seat-mounted airbags that can explode.
The 850,000 recalled vehicles include the following:
2006 Volkswagen Passat
2005-2013 Audi A3
2006-2009 Audi A4 Cabriolet
2010-2014 Volkswagen Golf and Jetta SportWagen
2007-2010 Volkswagen Passat
2012-2014 Volkswagen Passat Sedan and Eos
2009-2014 Volkswagen CC
2009-2012 Audi Q5
2010-2011 Audi A5 Cabriolet
I just converted my 4 machines to 4.3.4... nope, it can wait.
Seriously, that thing turns distros unusable, get rid of it already.
Why would you ever release the 4.3 branch of GNU/Linux if you have no intention of supporting it for more than a couple of months? The GNU/Linux kernel is going the way of Firefox and this is bad for users. Frequent updates that are untested reduce the quality of the software. I remember back when GNU/Linux 2.2 was rock solid and pretty much nothing could bring such a system down. The stability of the kernel has suffered in recent years, parts of the code are a mess, and this is a big reason why. Enterprise users should switch away from GNU/Linux if their software won't be supported for a reasonable amount of time and they can't trust it to be stable.
The much-vaunted router firmware is at kernel 3.Something. Can it truly be said to be a Linux variant? If so, how can it be so far behind?
Please tell it to Ubuntu? LTS are still on 3.x !
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
coming from windows i thought doing apt-get update and apt-get upgrade was enough
whats that thing im supossed to do now?
honest question
Complex question and best answered that if you have to ask, you're doing enough.
But, a more accurate question is how much do you trust the people who maintain your distro and how much effort are you willing to undertake. You can compile your own kernel. You can not. You can use a bleeding edge kernel. You can compile an older version that supports something that is now depreciated. You can patch. You can do anything you want. It's up to you and all about how much effort you want to put into it and what benefits you expect to get. You're quite probably fine (kernel related) just sticking with your regular updates via aptitude and the default repositories.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
I was hoping for a strong criticism of Linux, with lots of swear words, and derogatory words, including lin-sux, and Yoda doll up your ass. I was hoping for comparisons to the improving Windows 10 kernel, and the BSDs. Discussion of D-Bus, systemd, and initd would have been good. I would have also liked to hear about Gnome, gtk, qt, and Windows Desktop. oh well.
Oh great! Firs't they stop support for Windows XP and now this! Geez ....I guest I have to start using Mack and hope fully they dont update THAT too!
What next??? Telementary too? What back to Finland! ?!?!?!
The time passes the more the numbering scheme used for the Linux kernel appears to be a marketing tactic. I expect better but alas even Linus Torvald has fallen victim to consumerism of his own operating system.
Linux 4.3 Reached End of Life; Users Need To Move To Linux 4.4
Need? Surely the whole point of Linux is that no-one needs to do anything.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I'm not believing until Netcraft confirms it.
Am I reading this wrong? Is a version that came out in NOVEMBER 2015 "end of life"? If so, who in their right mind would use this junk for anything important?
I don't respond to AC's.
ok thnx, i will keep doing the same, ive heard apt-get dist-upgrade can break stuff so i will keep it simple and stay where im at. I just use it for ocasional torrenting, i needed a little bit more avaible hard drive space than i had left with windows 7 (80 gig maxtor hd), im using one of those linux distros for old pcs
You can fit Lubuntu in a small area and it's very light - it runs LXDE. It's actually my preferred distro on old or new hardware. I've dug out a ten year old PC and installed it on that. It was stable enough that I left it running when I went on wanderlust. I'm connected to that one now as it's technically a backup and I wanted to make sure it was running. I'm using VNC to send this through that. I left in September.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
So correct me if I'm wrong... Linux 2.x has been around for so many years we forgot that it will ever get an update.
And then suddenly in the past 2-3 years, it continuously got updated on a very frequent schedule.... and it even got the founder asking people to do update.
Just wondering if something/someone other than Linus himself is motivating this.