You mostly rely on vendor kernels, that is the point. The operating system would have updated it for you if it was actually still maintained.
Good operating systems will tell you that this OS is not secure anymore (if it ever was). But many that people use dont say anything while maybe even still shipping updates, so people think it is fine.
Mine is 4.19.248
https://endoflife.date/linux
Very longterm, support ended over 1 year ago. That kernel is 7 years old…
Android is very conservative with kernel upgrades, but this is insane.
I didn’t know this.
Kernel is still a gray area to me.
Can I update it while maintaining Saifish?
You mostly rely on vendor kernels, that is the point. The operating system would have updated it for you if it was actually still maintained.
Good operating systems will tell you that this OS is not secure anymore (if it ever was). But many that people use dont say anything while maybe even still shipping updates, so people think it is fine.
That is very good information.
Didn’t know about this.
Thank you very much.