been a couple years now since I first started using Endeavour as my main daily driver, and I’m still loving it. y’all are doing excellent work.
I’ve got a small suggestion, which is that it would be great to have LTS kernels on the live installer ISOs. I’m one of the minority folks who runs ZFS root just about everywhere, and I keep running into this problem where I have to use an older live ISO when fixing or debugging systems, because the latest ISO usually has a kernel version that’s too new to build the ZFS modules.
To me, the sensible solution would be to have LTS kernels (which are always supported) on the live CDs as a boot menu option, and then also if there’s an uncaught issue with the latest fresh kernel, folks have the LTS to fall back on as well.
is this something that’d be a pain to add? it’d be real helpful for folks like me, so if it’s not a huge hassle, I’d love to see it in the future.
I think it would make the boot menu too complicated for most users. We already get complaints that people don’t know what to choose. We would have to almost double the number of options to accommodate the extra kernels.
It would also increase the size of the ISO quite a bit because we would need the extra kernel and the accompanying initramfs to be added. We would also have to add some driver packages to support LTS.
ahhh yeah I get ya. IMO I’d rather see LTS kernels than bleeding edge ones on the installer if it’s a choice of one or the other, because I find there’s often issues with the combo of most-recent system packages and most-recent kernels, but I’m probably in the minority on that as well.
We do not see many issues with the kernel and drivers over the years, also because we do follow a strict testing phase before release.
Issues can happen with LTS kernel too, and it may help with some hardware but will cause issues with new hardware.
An extra ISO would be an option, but that’s also work to do on top of the load we have already.
It could be possible in the same way i set the weekly rebuilds:
that’s basically fully automated, but also add the downside that the ISO is untested.
Sure LTS could be monthly updated.
Still needs some users to go testing it and report about.
yeah, I was hoping it was just gonna be an easy-add, but your points are all pretty valid. I’ll just continue with using the previous release ISOs for now.
thanks as always for giving it some serious consideration though! y’all are great!
I build my own Arch Linux respin, Ezarcher, and include only the LTS kernels on the ISOs. It’s not EndeavourOS, but you may find it useful. You can find my project on Sourceforge under Ezarcher.
thanks! I’m also considering using cachy ISOs for rescue purposes, since it seems like they pack ZFS into the ISO already, which is really my primary concern.
