Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:33:25 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On 2026-07-30 06:04, rbowman wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:38:06 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>> 
>>>    The "updates" usually aren't much.
>>>
>>>     EXCEPT perhaps browsers ... the Bad Guys are constantly trying to
>>>     infiltrate browsers. It's an ongoing war, kinda in the literal
>>>     sense.
>> 
>> Maybe. Fedora just got another kernel after a massive 9 hours of
>> uptime.
>> Important to me? Probably not. Do I want to skip 10 kernels before
>> updating? No.
> 
> If I get another kernel that fast, it is because there was an error when
> making the previous one. I usually get about one a month.

Leap 16 uses the 6.12 LTS from November 2024. Fedora is at 7.1.5. It 
probably makes no difference to me but so it goes. For example 6.19 
included improvements for btrfs. Both my Leap and Fedora boxes use btrfs 
but I haven't noticed a difference. 

Leap 16 is Python 3.13. In October it will only receive security fixes. 
Fedora 45 is scheduled to move to 3.15 in October when it is released. I 
expect there will be more fixes. 

Plasma on Fedora is 6.7.2, 6.4.3 on Leap, and so forth.

Part of the decision making when selecting a distribution is how up to 
date you want to be. Fedora is semi-rolling and has fewer surprises than a 
rolling release like Arch or Tumbleweed while staying close to the newest 
versions. Leap is downstream of SLED and arguably is more stable. Ubuntu 
sort of splits the difference. 26.04's kernel is 7,0, which would have 
been 6.20 except Torvalds ran out of fingers and toes. It's a LTS release 
so while it has Python 3.14 I don't expect it will ever get 3.15. Ubuntu 
derivatives like Mint are a mixed bag. Mint's kernel is 6.17, its Python 
is 3.12. Newer kernel than Leap, older Python. I'm using those as 
indicators. systemd is 259 on Fedora and Ubuntu, 257 on Leap, etc.

The nice thing about Linux is you get to pick your poison.