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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Headline is a bit misleading... This is just Tails updating to the latest LTS kernel, which has the security fix (which many other distributions have done).

This update is a good thing, but the headline made it sound like the Tails project was contributing a fix to the kernel.

Anyway, thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agree, I opened the link because I thought the same thing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I personally still find it a little confusing. Maybe something like "Tails updates to Linux Kernel 5.16.1 to fix critical vulnerability"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good job, Tails! Now fly me to that platform over there...