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by oinksoft 4791 days ago
Of course.

The tone of the top-level comment, I think, is "woah, Debian, you call this kernel updated?"

Rock-solid distros like RHEL/CentOS and Debian are deliberately conservative. Some folks don't like that.
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ra 4791 days ago
Also more hardware support is less important on a server. Even less important on a virtualised server.
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microtonal 4791 days ago
But Red Hat used to (they probably still do) continuously backport a lot of drivers an functionality from newer kernels to their older, stable, kernel for the first 5.5 years after a release:

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

So I don't think RHEL/CentOS can be compared here to Debian.

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