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Linux Kernel 2.6.32 LTS Has Reached End of Life
prisoninmate writes: At the end of January we reported the fact that the oldest long-term supported kernel branch, Linux 2.6.32, is about to reached its end of life in February 2016, as announced by Willy Tarreau, who said that there might be another point release in a few weeks if important things need to be fixed. Well, it took a little bit longer than two weeks, and on March 12, he published details about the last maintenance release in the series, Linux kernel 2.6.32.71 LTS, along with the official end of life announcement, recommending users to move to the Linux 3.2 branch.
That's the last kernel that I as an individual was vaguely able to keep up with. Now it's such a bloated mess that unless you've been part of the development team for decades, you're really not going to be able to maintain an understanding.
It seems nearly every project in computing goes this way. Oh well, sic transit and stuff.
kinda sad. Linux does most things so well, yet their support life cycle doesn't come close to most commercial vendors. Organisations frequently having tech that stays in production for 10 or 15 years and then we wonder why so many don't make the switch to Linux, even MS has better support lifecycle.