The reason for this announcement is the EOL of
linux-tkg kernel builds in our repository. Since we used to provide these since the early beginning, we felt that an announcement explaining the reasoning behind this decision was necessary. The main reasons are:- Introduced maintenance burden due to missing options in the kernel config. Since these were missing from time to time, user input was necessary to continue the build process. No other kernel showed this kind of behaviour and confirming the use of the default option for all kernel variants is a quite time consuming and annoying task. Opening issues every time this happens is also unsustainable long-term.
- Maintainers making use of it moved to
linux-cachyos variants and therefore don't need linux-tkg anymore. - Not having a dedicated builder for these packages anymore. During the last months, they were built on demand to not introduce too much load to the main builder. This means builds were sometimes happening too late (or stalled due to the previously mentioned kernel config issues because we can't babysit the process for multiple hours)
As an alternative, we can recommend the
linux-cachyos kernel variants of @ptr1337. They have proven to be great kernels. In case of popular demand, we also might add additional variants of this kernel 😊