Jonathan Corbet, kernel developer for Linux, has announced that the organization will increase support to two years in six years.

At the Open Source Summit in Bilbao, Spain, Linux announced that it would end kernel support for six years. The LTS or Long term support The six-year deadline will be eliminated for the next kernel and will only be two years, reports ZDNet.

Six to six

There are currently six kernels operating under the LTS banner:

• 6.1
• 5.15
• 5.10
• 5.4
• 4.19
• 4.14

The latter will retire next year and will not receive a replacement. This also applies to the two who left later. New kernels would then receive two years of support as before.

Version 6.1 is the first kernel with support for the Rust programming language. Unfortunately, the relatively new language also has disadvantages, such as the worm written in it.

Burn out

According to Corbet, the explanation is simple: people simply don’t use such old kernels. That’s a shame, because those who maintain Linux’s LTS system spend a lot of time doing it. Actually too much time.

They are the ones who monitor whether the code is working properly, and most of them do this in their free time. As a result, many of these caregivers are burned out, also because most of them do their long hours of work meticulously, which is a burden in the long run.