180626 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:58 PM Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> Does anyone know why the latest stable version of Gentoo-sources is 4.9.xx ? >> I installed 4.9.16 , which I continue to use, on 2017-04-06 . >> The tree contains versions of 4.14 4.16 4.17 , but all are still testing. > I believe that some had been complaining about stability issues with 4.14, > but personally I've been fine with it, and since I have a Ryzen CPU > I want something that has the SMT support enabled ... > I don't know what the Gentoo plans are for 4.14 - > I know they've been avoiding it for a while. > I'm not sure if they ever plan to move to it > or if they're just hoping to skip it entirely. > I think we sb getting a new longterm sometime in the next few months.
Well, wonders never cease (smile) : Gentoo-sources-4.14.52 is now stable ! I've emerged it & will probably install it tomorrow. Hopefully, this will also allow me to upgrade to Nvidia-drivers-396.24-r1 . As always, my thanks to the volunteers involved. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
