Hi, On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 05:34:53PM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 31/12/2025 à 16:31, Robert Foster a écrit : > > Right now Debian official release only has Kernel v6.12.x And it's way > > too old. > > Just so you know : > > 1) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x and its clones like Rocky Linux 8.x and > AlmaLinux 8.x default to the 4.18 kernel series, supported until 2029 by Red > Hat's engineers.
I see where you're going with this but I don't think it's really as simple as that. Red Hat has a lot of engineers put in a lot of effort backporting not only security fixes but also some features that Red Hat is interested in supporting through the life of their release. By the EOL of RHEL 8 (2029) their 4.18.x kernel package will bear very little resemblance to the last upstream 4.18.x kernel and their changes are far more extensive than what Debian would have done to its stable kernel during the life of a Debian stable release. And that's part of what you pay for when you pay the Red Hat subscription. Even though RHEL 8's kernel version says 4.18.x (and will until the year 2029) it would be in no way safe or sensible to use a Debian or upstream kernel marked as being 4.18.x, because those two things are not in any way comparable. > If this doesn't convince you… Again, I know where you are coming from because I am also reluctant to go for newer kernel versions "just because", but if it's a case of hardware being supported or not then it's not really a matter of "being convinced"; you find a backport or use a newer kernel just to get things working. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
