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awill on July 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Valve Steam Deck

Bingo, the kernel updates through the life of the fedora release. Then it stops. The life of a console is 8+ years. This needs to be supported for that long. Valve don't want to do multiple dist-upgrades over that time. They just want roll

Conan_Kudo on July 16, 2021 [–]

I suspect they're not going to do that with SteamOS. They'll likely freeze the tree and do effectively the dist-upgrade style process themselves.

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