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TLDR Summary
YellowJacket GNU/Linux (YJL) is intended as a hobbyist DESKTOP Linux distribution with releases based on a LTS (Long Term Support) kernel with rolling updates as the GNU C Library (GLibC) is updated.
New LTS kernels appear about once a year, but at least while this is a small project, new versions of YJL may skip a LTS release or even two—noting that any hobbyist who needs a newer kernel can always install a newer kernel without it needing to be an official YJL kernel.
YJL will never ship a patched kernel. It is too expensive because then you have to hire very skilled programmers to deal with bugs and other issues that the patches may cause. If a hobbyist needs a kernel feature not in the LTS kernel series YJL ships, YJL includes a C compiler that allows such a hobbyist to build a newer kernel or patch a kernel to their hearts content. And I encourage hobbyists to do so, you can learn a LOT by researching various kernel options.
YJL will not ship an SELinux kernel. SELinux is extremely important for enterprise Linux, but enterprise Linux specifically is not the goal and it tends to frustrate desktop users and hobbyists.
For good SELinux distributions, use Debian or RHEL.
New major versions of GLibC tend to appear about every six months. When a new major version of GLibC does appear, YJL may choose to re-bootstrap against that newer GLibC however that is most likely to happen only when GCC (The GNU Compiler Collection), Perl, and Python could benefit from updates to the series of those packages that ship with YJL.
YJL will use SystemD for system services. Note that my current bootstrap is System V Init but that was a choice mistake that will be fixed before I have an installer.
YJL is x86-64 with no intentions of porting to other hardware platforms but who knows about the future.
YJL is NOT multilib but I do have plans to support 32-bit ABI in
/opt/compat-32 primarily because games but also WINE or whatever, so
in that respect multilib is planned, but as a limited afterthought with
its own toolchain etc.
See APX-BEYOND-TLDR for more thoughts.