Question About LTS

rvickers · 2016-09-24 20:55:57

Is arch lts a rolling release? If not, how is it upgraded?
Thanks

jasonwryan · 2016-09-24 20:59:19

-lts rolls with the upstream longterm release: https://www.kernel.org/

Moving to NC...

bstaletic · 2016-09-24 21:05:55

There is no arch lts. There's only linux-lts package, which is not the same. Arch linux is a rolling release distro.

rvickers · 2016-09-24 21:11:32

Thanks, https://www.kernel.org/ was the answer I was looking for. I just returned to arch after 2 years with w10 and wanted a bug free release to start off with...

graysky · 2016-09-24 22:23:52

rvickers wrote:

Thanks, https://www.kernel.org/ was the answer I was looking for. I just returned to arch after 2 years with w10 and wanted a bug free release to start off with...

The linux package is pretty darn bug-free... I believe LTS is targeted at severs.

Trilby · 2016-09-24 22:26:22

I run the regular current kernel on my servers.

graysky · 2016-09-24 22:36:11

Trilby wrote:

I run the regular current kernel on my servers.

I do as well... there was a RAID bug a while back that kept me on LTS but it has been fixed.

jasonwryan · 2016-09-24 22:41:43

rvickers · 2016-09-25 00:43:47

BTW, I'm posting on a flawless LTS install. My thoughts were that once you're on arch for awhile and you get everything fixed then you have something to fall back on in case of a serious breakage. I installed normal arch last week and as usual things went wrong, some were my fault, some I think are kernel problems and some I fixed and worked around a network manager problem. Yesterday I reinstalled but with lts and everything is working and configured correctly. Now if something breaks I have a set of pgms to fall back on. I ran arch for 4+ years and things broke quite often but I could either fix them quickly or fall back to previous versions. Now I have the option of upgrading up to the stable version with the tools to fix whatever problems I encounter. I also have the knowledge and confidence that arch will run on my hardware and I can configure a new install correctly.

jasonwryan · 2016-09-25 01:51:08

There is nothing stopping you from having linux and linux-lts kernels to choose from at bootup.

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