nave@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoLinux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much workarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1339arrow-down14
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minus-squaredingleberry@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 year agoPretty sure all big tech companies already have engineers on payroll for this specific reason. Intel, Microsoft, Google, Amazon have SWEs working on the kernel, networking, even DEs for their own needs and integrations.
minus-squareCriticalMiss@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoAnd yet still the maintainers don’t want to maintain 6 yo kernels because it’s cumbersome and an unpaid position.
minus-squarenous@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoUnpaid? A lot of kernel devs do get paid, especially the core ones that would be looking after this stuff. 75% – The share of all kernel development that is done by developers who are being paid for their work. https://www.pingdom.com/blog/linux-kernel-development-numbers/
Pretty sure all big tech companies already have engineers on payroll for this specific reason. Intel, Microsoft, Google, Amazon have SWEs working on the kernel, networking, even DEs for their own needs and integrations.
And yet still the maintainers don’t want to maintain 6 yo kernels because it’s cumbersome and an unpaid position.
Unpaid? A lot of kernel devs do get paid, especially the core ones that would be looking after this stuff.
https://www.pingdom.com/blog/linux-kernel-development-numbers/