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Ubuntu Infrastructure Woe Continues Making It A Hassle To Run The Latest Upstream Kernel
The Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA for years has been a great feature for Ubuntu users to be able to easily fetch and run the newest upstream kernel whether it's the latest stable kernel version, one of the weekly release candidates, or even the very leading-edge daily Git kernel builds
Several Phoronix readers in recent weeks have expressed their frustration over the issue in that this package archive was a very convenient place for fetching the newest stable/development kernels for use on Ubuntu. It's been the de facto place for quickly and easily fetching the newer upstream Linux kernel images than what is shipped by default in Ubuntu releases. The Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA downtime was previously blamed on some infrastructure / data center changes but now lasting 5+ months is rather bizarre if that's the case.
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