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[kstrauser]

> infact google still uses a 2.2 kernel with all custom back ported updates of the last 30 years.

Say what?

[mbilker → kstrauser]

They are trying to get off or have gotten off their kernel fork called "Prodkernel" for some time now.

https://lwn.net/Articles/871195/ https://events.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/0...

[yencabulator → mbilker]

And ProdKernel generally lags mainstream by only a few years, as can be seen in the things you linked to.

The change being talked here is moving from merge ~2 years to merge all the time. Saying they're stuck on something from 1999 is ridiculous.