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The kernels installed by this script are completely unsupported, and not intended for end-users. Their intended use case is as a convenience in debugging issues with Ubuntu provided kernels.
They get no bug fixes and are not covered by any security guarantees. As such, a user who installs and runs with a kernel setup in this manner is opting out of security updates provided by the official Ubuntu kernels in the default archive.
While I appreciate the rationale some have for installing new kernels (performance, bug fix, hardware support etc) it should be done with informed consent. The user should be told that they're not going to get support for these kernels, and are not covered by security updates.
Perhaps there should be both a warning at the top of the README.md for this repo, and in addition when the user runs the script, at least for the first time, if not every time, that they're going "off piste" when it comes to security updates and support.
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Thanks for the heads-up, I have added some more/clearer warnings to the readme and have added a link to your comment. I think this should cover most of your concerns :)
The kernels installed by this script are completely unsupported, and not intended for end-users. Their intended use case is as a convenience in debugging issues with Ubuntu provided kernels.
They get no bug fixes and are not covered by any security guarantees. As such, a user who installs and runs with a kernel setup in this manner is opting out of security updates provided by the official Ubuntu kernels in the default archive.
While I appreciate the rationale some have for installing new kernels (performance, bug fix, hardware support etc) it should be done with informed consent. The user should be told that they're not going to get support for these kernels, and are not covered by security updates.
Perhaps there should be both a warning at the top of the README.md for this repo, and in addition when the user runs the script, at least for the first time, if not every time, that they're going "off piste" when it comes to security updates and support.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: