Francis Ginther

Francis Ginther

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Engineering Manager


Francis Ginther
16 April 2020

Introducing the Ubuntu AWS Rolling Kernel

Article Cloud and server

The linux-aws 4.15 based kernel, which is the default kernel in the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS AMIs, is moving to a rolling kernel model. Why is this changing? The Ubuntu rolling kernel model provides the latest upstream bug fixes and performance improvements around task scheduling, I/O scheduling, networking, hypervisor guests...

Francis Ginther
16 April 2020