Yep, both Peppermint and Mint are based on Ubuntu, but they use differing repositories and kernels.
My message wasn't intended to knock that site as it does contain some
very useful information, but whenever I see that page mentioned and/or someone suggests people should use the Mint settings in Peppermint I find it necessary to point out it's not a good idea to disable kernel updates, particularly in Peppermint 8 and that we didn't simply overlook the settings, they were chosen for a reason.
We wouldn't want people putting their security at risk based on information that's written with Mint in mind that doesn't fit with how our kernel updates are applied (which is different to Mint). AFAIK Mint is always on the 4.4 (long term support) kernel without user intervention, Peppermint 8 has a more recent but shorter lived kernel so updates are NECESSARY for the kernel to rollover to the next version for system security.
IIRC I'm also pretty sure that page was written BEFORE Peppermint 8 was released so probably didn't take into account kernel updates from the HWE.
If however the user FULLY understands how the HWE kernel rollovers work and the implications of disabling kernel updates, he is free to disable them if he chooses .. which is why we decided not to remove that ability from mintupdate, just changed the defaults.
(though I am beginning to rethink that decision)
But when this comes up,
Team Peppermint must ADVISE against disabling kernel updates for anyone who doesn't fully understand the HWE and the implications.
