Sorry to respond to my own email. I guess I need to look at it differently. My problem is I want the kernel version to stay the same for a long time, and it really doesn't need to.
I need to use the latest stable kernel, not mainline, and treat it like any other piece of software that updates on a regular basis and has radically fast number changes.... lol Thanks for listening. You can have your couch back. nathan On Monday, May 13, 2013 18:47:26 Nathan England wrote: > Hello all! > > Sorry, I just need to rant for a moment. I recently built an X86_64 LFS > build using the current stable. It recommends using linux kernel 3.8.1, so > I picked the latest at the moment which was 3.8.11. It has only been a > couple of weeks and now the 3.8 line has been EOL'd !!!!!argh! > > I don't want to use the mainline kernel, but the rest are old enough that I > want to utilize the "coolness" of the latest stuff and use a newer kernel. > > Should I build a new LFS and use the 3.9.2 kernel or is that too going to be > EOL'd in a week? How are we supposed to know what is going to be a long > term kernel? Or are the "long term kernels" really the only long term > kernels and anything other than mainline should automatically be considered > EOL kernels? -- Regards, Nathan England ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NME Computer Services http://www.nmecs.com Nathan England (nat...@nmecs.com) Systems Administration / Web Application Development Information Security Consulting (480) 559.9681 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
