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> If, for now, you prefer stability over speed, you can get still get going with Livepatch by reverting to the old kernel,

Ha, that's not the most inspirational ending.

I would have hoped that stability doesn't even need to be mentioned, considering that this is now one of the default images on AWS. I don't think anyone would choose this kernel if they thought there might be a higher chance of it crashing and taking down their server.

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I think in this context by "stability" they mean "not rebooting"

https://www.ubuntu.com/server/livepatch is a commercial service that can apply security patches to a running kernel.

Oh, you're right. Whoops, should have paid more attention!

I think this could have been communicated slightly better; I'm sure if you rebuild your VM regularly, you'll get all the same patches.

Or even doing a reboot after an `apt update` that comes with a kernel update. The livepatch bit only updates the running kernel anyway

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