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Parent poster was referring to the "LTS" kernels: https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

A good number of Linux distributions are based on an LTS release instead of a mainline release.

Yes, I am aware of that but are LTS kernels in any for different from the mainline kernel? Can LTS kernel contain code that is not approved and tested in mainline first? They are 'older' but they contain same feature set that is already approved by Linus, right?

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