Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

At 30 Jul 2026 19:03:25 GMT, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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. 

Just a note about Mint -- you can install a later kernel using the update
manager, under view > Linux kernels.

(The latest is 7.0.0.)

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