> practically speaking the kernel is the biggest component of this for a lot of people.
Really? I mean, step back from your initial gut reaction and ask yourself how many software developers could even name which version of the kernel their code runs on without checking. Most developers never make a syscall directly and, increasingly, aren't even calling something like libc directly because they use higher-level libraries.
Sure, some people really care cause they recently hit an issue with specific drivers and a few people are using a really new feature, but that's a much smaller group than the number of people running code which doesn't even depend on Linux, much less a specific point release.
Looking at the release notes, I'd say there are a LOT more people affected by real bugs which are fixed in 14.04.2 than will be affected by hypothetical bugs nobody seems to have noticed yet:
Really? I mean, step back from your initial gut reaction and ask yourself how many software developers could even name which version of the kernel their code runs on without checking. Most developers never make a syscall directly and, increasingly, aren't even calling something like libc directly because they use higher-level libraries.
Sure, some people really care cause they recently hit an issue with specific drivers and a few people are using a really new feature, but that's a much smaller group than the number of people running code which doesn't even depend on Linux, much less a specific point release.
Looking at the release notes, I'd say there are a LOT more people affected by real bugs which are fixed in 14.04.2 than will be affected by hypothetical bugs nobody seems to have noticed yet:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummar...