Grant, On Tuesday, 2024-04-16 19:26:25 -0000, you wrote:
> ... > That means that all gentoo-sources stable kernels are "longterm" > kernel versions on kernel.org. It does not mean that all "longterm" > kernel versions from kernel.org are available as "stable" in > gentoo-sources. > > It is a statement that "gentoo-sources stable" is a subset of > "kernel.org longterm". This sort of deteriorates into a debate about words rather than meanings without explaining HOW LONG such a series of related kernels are main- tained and provided. After all, "longterm" or "LTS" suggest that these lines of developement are less short-lived than others. To give an ex- ample: the oldest "longterm" kernels listed on "kernel.org" are 4.19.*, 5.4.* and 5.10.*. Of these only 5.10.* is still available from Gentoo. Digging through my Gentoo installation logs, I can see that 4.19.72 was one of the first kernels I built myself. This was somewhen in the mid- dle of 2019, that is, not yet five years back. And this kernel line has already vanished from Gentoo. So what time span are we talking about when we say "LTS Gentoo kernel"? Roughly four, three or two years? And why is the support provided by Gentoo significantly shorter than that by "kernel.org"? Sincerely, Rainer
