[09:44] <demahum> I am looking forward to understand Ubuntu Kernel updates. For the beginning, if I do apt update followed by apt upgrade, and if the kernel update is available, I will get it that way, correct?
[09:54] <apw> apt update then apt upgrade i believe yes will get you any availble kernel updates
[09:54] <apw> assuming you have the appropriate meta package installed (which you should by default)
[09:54] <apw> demahum, ^
[09:55] <demahum> apw: awesome
[09:55] <demahum> now..
[09:56] <demahum> there is this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Support
[09:56] <demahum> the kernel release schedule
[09:56] <apw> yes
[09:56] <demahum> and in my case, I have 16.04.3 LTS
[09:56] <demahum> and my current kernel is 4.4.0-112
[09:57] <demahum> I am talking desktop, but it's the same on my server
[09:57] <apw> you installed from 16.04.3 media ?
[09:57] <demahum> apw: yes yes, everything standard and default
[09:57] <demahum> now...
[09:57] <apw> servers tend to keep the GA kernel (4.4.0-* in the case of 16.04)
[09:58] <apw> i ask about the media you used because if you installed from 16.04 or 16.04.1 media and upgraded
[09:58] <apw> you would have 16.04.3 in the sense that is what lsb_release thingy would say
[09:58] <apw> but you would have a differnt kernel selected than if you used 16.04.3 media
[09:58] <apw> for the install
[09:58] <demahum> apw: what can happen (aside from manual kernel installation) that my 16.04. jumps from 4.4.0-* to e.g. 4.12.*?
[09:59] <apw> if you had installed from 16.04.2 or later you would have had the linux-hwe kernel selected
[09:59] <apw> and that kernel jumps from 4.8 -> 4.10 -> 4.13 as it is following the hardware-enablement branch
[10:00] <demahum> apw: Awesome!
[10:00] <demahum> apw: you gave me enough information so I can read on now. Big thanks!
[10:00] <apw> so i assume if your desktop is following 4.4 it was installed from older media
[10:01] <demahum> apw: after I read these... if something is unclear, I'll come back
[10:01] <apw> and has 'linux-generic' meta package installed, which keeps your GA kernel up to date
[10:01] <demahum> apw: yeah, probably that's the case
[10:01] <apw> a machine which has the later stuff on it would have linux-generic-hwe-16.04 installed which keeps the linux-hwe kernel up to date
[10:01] <demahum> apw: perfect, thanks!