On Mon, 2023-01-02 at 14:35 +0000, Polarian wrote: > switch over to lts, it still gets all the security patches just not > the unstable features they are adding [off-topic] Hi, just a hint for those who need or want to stay with a kernel over a very long time. Arch Linux provides the latest longterm kernel. Those who really want a permanent longterm kernel it's necessary to build the packages. IOW "LTS" is a relative term, since https://www.kernel.org/ supports longterm: 5.15.86 longterm: 5.10.161 longterm: 5.4.228 longterm: 4.19.269 longterm: 4.14.302 longterm: 4.9.336 and "SLTS (Super Long Term Support)" is provided by the Civil Infrastructure Platform https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/start . Supported are EOL SLTS v5.10 2031-01 SLTS v5.10-rt 2031-01 SLTS v4.19 2029-01 SLTS v4.19-rt 2029-01 SLTS v4.4 2027-01 SLTS v4.4-rt 2027-01 As long as possible I will stay with my current hardware and build 4.19-rt kernels. I always keep 4 versions and replace the oldest by an available update. To do that they get an individual affix, such as "pussytoes". I misuse pkgrel and pkgdesc to provide information about the config, e.g. "0.300" is for CONFIG_HZ=300, since CONFIG_HZ might matter and change for my usage. $ uname -r 4.19.269-rt119-0.300-pussytoes Regards, Ralf
