Quite true, I reboot all my machines daily via crontab. (crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "0 3 * * * /sbin/reboot") | crontab - Linux Mint EOL Security Updates: Linux Mint 22.x: Supported with security updates until April 2029. Linux Mint 21.x: Supported with security updates until April 2027. Linux Mint 20.x: Reached EOL in April 2025. No further security updates are provided for this version. I would upgrade to the latest LTS to ensure security updates continue to happen well into the near future. Running sudo apt install mintupgrade and then mintupgrade will achieve that. All the usual caveats of backing up any important data applies. In my experience most major Linux upgrade major versions with no major hiccups. Linux Mint upgrade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNSbSZC2BnU&t=15s Hope this helps, Jason
On 05/18/2026 12:02 AM CDT Trevor Cordes via Roundtable <roundtable@muug.ca> wrote:
On 2026-05-17 Jason Loughead via Roundtable wrote:
haven't already) so be sure to always install updates. On Debian/Ubuntu derivations simply run "sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades; sudo unattended-upgrades" and you'll have automatically installed security updates. Jason
The problem is often not that people aren't updating, it's that they are running an EOL OS that doesn't get updates anymore. In this case, though, his Mint is still under support for another year.
Also, unattended upgrades are generally a good thing (especially for home users), but most don't auto-reboot when it's a kernel bug. And all of these recent CVEs are kernel bugs, requiring reboots to take effect.
Some package managers won't even restart all related daemons when their packages are updated, which is basically the same problem. Even worse when you're talking about libraries that are deps of other things!
No magic bullet. You kind of have to keep up with the updates mailing lists for your distro, and/or run updates manually religiously and pay attention to what's going on so you restart daemons/programs and/or reboot. Even worse, every distro does it differently. _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable@muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave@muug.ca