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		kwijibob on July 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The getrandom(2) system call was requested by the ... Not necessarily. Ubuntu have "enablement stacks" kernel updates for the LTS releases. These are more than just upstream patches. For example, 12.04 LTS release had 12.04.4 with a backported kernel as a standard update. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/ChangeS...

sarciszewski on July 18, 2014 [–]

Oh, and here I thought they just patched security holes but kept the same old kernel for 2 years. [insert "the more you know" graphic here]

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