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Why is it that my sister and I have different latest kernel versions, even though we both have Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon? (feddit.org)
submitted 6 days ago by Aequitas@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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My kernel version is ‘6.8.0-87-generic’ and hers is ‘6.14.00-33-generic’. My brother, who uses CachyOS, has kernel version '6.17.1-2-cachyos'. So it makes a little sense that the kernel is different. Even though I always thought that there was just one kernel that all Linux versions use.

But why is there a different kernel for the same distro?

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't know if they still do it, but Mint used to do staggered updates (through their update manager) for some packages. They would start out making the update only available for, say, 10% of people and then slowly built up to 100% if no issues were discovered.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago

This also relieves download pressure on their servers