General Questions • Re: When will bookworm move to LTS Kernel 6.6

I am not looking at Debian LTS. Rather the Linux LTS kernel that Debian Bookworm, i.e. 12.x is using. Debian is still using the old Linux LTS kernel, i.e. 6.1. And not the newest Linux LTS kernel, i.e. 6.6. I get the claim about

in Debian the current Stable version and it's kernel is "more stable and more debugged."

But the same can be said about Linux Kernel 6.6. There is no empirical evidence to suggest that 6.6 is not as stable if not more than 6.1. Further the assumption that Linux Kernel 6.1 is more debugged and hence better than Linux Kernel 6.6 is also not based on anything solid.

I am not expecting Debian to be on the bleeding edge and have 6.12 or higher kernel version. For that there is arch and its variants. But in terms of LTS kernel being used Debian should be at the most recent Linux LTS kernel. Which as on today happens to be 6.6.

Statistics: Posted by DebianFox — 2024-11-12 08:33

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