Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
Ubuntu has CVE-2026-98432 marked as a 9.8, but yet it's coming up on a week with no update to fix it. It's still marked as "work in progress" (though at least now they've listed a mitigation): https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-98432 I've had mitigations in place for a week, but this response is really shaking my confidence in Ubuntu. I'm just trying to understand what is going on with Ubuntu. Do they have too many kernels (that page is loooong), do they not have enough automation in
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来源描述：Ubuntu has CVE-2026-98432 marked as a 9.8, but yet it's coming up on a week with no update to fix it. It's still marked as "work in progress" (though at least now they've listed a mitigation): https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-98432 I've had mitigations in place for a week, but this response is really shaking my confidence in Ubuntu. I'm just trying to understand what is going on with Ubuntu. Do they have too many kernels (that page is loooong), do they not have enough automation in
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记录作者：linsomniac。 来源票数: 40 votes (2026年11月6日 UTC; cumulative since publication) 可供比较的近期同类记录：“Looking for a tech job is a helpless data-entry nightmare” (Hacker News, 2026年10月27日)；“[问与答] 有没有可以对前端 自动化测试的 AI 工具?” (V2EX, 2026年10月16日)。主题相近仅用于导航，未核验其是否属于同一需求或独立证据。
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