On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 01:05:01AM -0500, Gino! wrote: > So, it seems like gentoo-sources loves EOL kernels.. > can anybody tell me why this is, it seems like that would be a bad thing... > I always move up to the latest amd64 stable, but 3.7.9 is super buggy > (nvidia and aufs3 complain among others)
What is "super buggy" about 3.7.9? Have you reported this anywhere? Also, 3.7.y upstream is about to go end-of-life, so you really should move to 3.8 soon. > so I'm staying at 3.6.11... Why that one? It's been end-of-life for a while now, with known security issues... > although I would feel allot more comfortable with something like > 3.4.33!! but its at 3.4.9... > > Do you gentoo-sources folks recommend a particular release for Long Term > Stable ongoing support??? If you have to have something like this, then use the versions that upstream is saying is going to be "long term", meaning the 3.0 or 3.4 releases. But note that new hardware will not work on these releases, so you will be out of luck if you have really modern hardware, sorry. > Thats the one i want to use. Why? What does something like this buy you in a rolling-release distro like Gentoo? thanks, greg k-h
