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This is the best summary I could come up with:
This support extension is good news for anyone still running older kernels in production, but also, in context, slightly puzzling.
OpenELA came together in August 2023 as a cooperation between Oracle, SUSE, and Rocky Linux backers CIQ.
The thing is, though, that kernel 4.14 is not used by any of the obvious candidate distros from Red Hat or RHEL derivatives.
After OpenELA contacted us to tell us about the announcement, we asked why this particular version, and if there was any connection with AWS or Amazon Linux 2, but although we gave them a few working days, at the time of writing we have had not heard from them.
Currently, each of the the bigger distro vendors maintain their own kernel versions, and they all work separately.
Our feeling is that it would be beneficial for the greater Linux world if more of the enterprise vendors could agree to work together on the LTS kernels, for instance by ensuring that long-term supported distros used the upstream long-term supported kernel versions.
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