From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 03:39:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <paou39$uvb$1@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180412223726.qx55n7scaeuogp2i@solfire>
On 13/04/18 01:37, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> On 04/13 01:29, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>
>> Do you have something specific in mind? I'm not aware of software that
>> requires a non-LTS kernel right now, or a beta X.Org driver, or a beta
>> nvidia-driver.
>
> I think of security incidents like meltdown/spectre for example...
It's an LTS kernel. "Long-Term Support." It gets all the security fixes
and bugfixes for years to come, while kernels like 4.15 and 4.16 will
stop getting updated after a short while. LTS kernels on the other hand
are updated for years.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-13 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-12 13:31 [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU? Alexey Eschenko
2018-04-12 15:54 ` Dale
2018-04-12 17:47 ` tuxic
2018-04-12 18:21 ` Dale
2018-04-12 18:57 ` tuxic
2018-04-12 19:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2018-04-12 22:18 ` tuxic
2018-04-12 22:29 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-04-12 22:37 ` tuxic
2018-04-13 0:31 ` Adam Carter
2018-04-13 0:39 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2018-04-13 8:08 ` Alexey Eschenko
2018-04-13 6:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Arve Barsnes
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