On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 02:09:59PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Hi Efraim,
>
> Efraim Flashner writes:
> > I don't really understand why
> > and how a newer kernel would make things stop working,
>
> Newer kernels _usually_ work fine, but occasionally things break, and
> that's much more likely
Hi Efraim,
Efraim Flashner writes:
> I don't really understand why
> and how a newer kernel would make things stop working,
Newer kernels _usually_ work fine, but occasionally things break, and
that's much more likely to happen when switching to a newer kernel
series. It happened to me quite re
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 04:02:46PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Vagrant Cascadian writes:
> > Would it be too complicated to include both the latest LTS kernel and
> > the most recently packaged kernel in the installer, and default to using
> > the same kernel for the installation?
>
>
Hi,
Vagrant Cascadian writes:
> Would it be too complicated to include both the latest LTS kernel and
> the most recently packaged kernel in the installer, and default to using
> the same kernel for the installation?
Sounds good to me. More specifically, I would suggest offering the user
a choi
On 2021-05-27, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:10:21AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> Would it be too complicated to include both the latest LTS kernel and
>> the most recently packaged kernel in the installer, and default to using
>> the same kernel for the installation?
>
> I
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:10:21AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> Would it be too complicated to include both the latest LTS kernel and
> the most recently packaged kernel in the installer, and default to using
> the same kernel for the installation?
I'm a bit confused about what you are sugges
On 2021-05-27, Leo Famulari wrote:
> I'm not sure exactly how the situation could be improved. Maybe the
> installer and the operating-system declarations that it generates could
> instead use one of the "longterm" [1] kernel series?
>
> I'm not totally comfortable steering users to these longterm
At the time of the recent 1.3.0 Guix release, the "default" linux-libre
kernel series was the 5.11 series [0]:
--
(define-public linux-libre-version linux-libre-5.11-version)
(define-public linux-libre-pristine-source linux-libre-5.11-pristine-source)
(define-public linux-libre-source