Linux Kernel Release Model

1 · Greg Kroah-Hartman · Feb. 5, 2018, 5:13 p.m.
Note This post is based on a whitepaper I wrote at the beginning of 2016 to be used to help many different companies understand the Linux kernel release model and encourage them to start taking the LTS stable updates more often. I then used it as a basis of a presentation I gave at the Linux Recipes conference in September 2017 which can be seen here. With the recent craziness of Meltdown and Spectre , I’ve seen lots of things written about how Linux is released and how we handle handles securi...