Linux 6.1 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel

Linux 6.1 was widely anticipated to be a Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel with normally the last major release series for the calendar year normally promoted to LTS status. Greg Kroah-Hartman as the Linux stable maintainer went ahead today and formally recognized Linux 6.1 as the 2022 LTS kernel. From a report: Greg KH was planning on Linux 6.1 being LTS given its December debut. But he was waiting on feedback from kernel stakeholders over their test results with Linux 6.1 and plans around using Linux 6.1 for the long-term. He's finally collected enough positive responses -- along with co-maintainer Sasha Levin -- that there is confidence in maintaining Linux 6.1 as an LTS series.

As of now the plan is on maintaining Linux 6.1 through December 2026, which is just a few months longer than the current Linux 5.15 LTS series that will be maintained through October 2026. We'll see over time if Linux 6.1 ends up potentially being maintained for the longer six-year LTS period that would put it through 2028. However, the number of Linux LTS series being maintained in tandem is growing and will ultimately depend upon how much these kernels are used by major industry players and how much commitment there is for testing of the point release candidates, etc.

I have the feeling .....

[dowhileor]

That 6.1 will get 400+ patches before it's all over.

Re:I have the feeling .....

[Tailhook]

That 6.1 will get 400+ patches before it's all over.

Is that all. If 400 patches is all it takes to tie off a 30-odd million line code base their doing pretty good.

Re:

[quonset]

That 6.1 will get 400+ patches before it's all over.

Is that all. If 400 patches is all it takes to tie off a 30-odd million line code base their doing pretty good.

*they're*

Wish There Was a Low-Latency Switch for Audio

[BrendaEM]

Generally, in Linux, if you want to do low-latency music production, you need to build your own kernal with special twittles, So, why not having a switch in ect somewhere to accomplish the same thing? Low latency would also help multimedia streaming such as with OBS Studio.

If it's not in the kernal already, I would like to see Jack Audio Server a standard part of Linux. I don't much care for the person who made JACK, but it's a brilliant and capable API for music production.

Remember music is sad on 3 platforms: Mac has no hardware, Windows has no multichannel API, and Linux has a API, but everyone turns their back on it.

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[Hydrian]

A lot of what you are asking for is more about the distro packaging, not the kernel itself. The Linux kernel is about being many different things to different people and use-cases. That doesn't mean the kernel can be everything to everybody at the same time. Sounds like you are looking for a general-use distro to be a specialized DAW too. Many things of that are mutually exclusive.

The things you are looking for should be included in a Linux DAW distro, something like Ubuntu Studio or AV Linux, not necessar