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#livepatching — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #livepatching, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Canonical extends Ubuntu LTS security and support to 15 years via the Legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro. Coverage starts with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

    More details here: ostechnix.com/canonical-extend

    #UbuntuPro #Ubuntu #LongTermSupport #Linux #Livepatching #Security #Support

  2. Unpopular opinion: if your use case requires (or even significantly benefits from) #Linux #Kernel #livepatching, your use case is mostly likely broken.

    If you've got such high availability requirements, you likely should be running a 2-3 node cluster and focus on reducing switch-over latency.

    In exchange, you'll get protection against many more issues than the limited number of available live patches.

    #Dependability #HA