14 DAY TRIAL // Renowned kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman revealed earlier the fact that the upcoming Linux 4.4 kernel branch would be an LTS (Long-Term Support) one, maintained for a couple of years.
The huge announcement was made by Mr. Kroah-Hartman on October 28, 2015, on a short post published on his Google+ page, where the kernel developer stated that great things happen during discussions at the Linux Kernel Summit event.
"The Linux 4.4 kernel will be the next LTS (long term support) release that I will maintain for 2 years," said Greg Kroah-Hartman. "Sometimes discussions at the kernel summit end up in results you never expected, it's been a great week. "
Shortly after the announcement that Linux kernel 4.4 would be the next LTS release, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, added a comment on his Google+ page, saying that "A great week for Greg is a great week for all of us."
As you might know, Canonical is already working on the next LTS release of Ubuntu Linux, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), which means that it will most probably be based on Linux kernel 4.4 LTS.
The information has not yet been confirmed by Mr. Shuttleworth, but we believe that this is the logical move for a long-term supported version of Ubuntu Linux. At the moment of writing this article, the Linux kernel has eight LTS branches.