Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 14. März 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander: > While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting the > 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the next > long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of the newer > features from the

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 14. März 2013 schrieb Gary Dale: > On 13/03/13 09:00 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > > While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting > > the 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the > > next long term support kernel, but I would like to

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 04:40 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Or, there are a gazillion VM solutions available for precisely this > purpose. For testing a FS a virtual machine is fine, but often you need a "real" install even for playing, that's why I've got a multi-boot with that many Linux. I'm not

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/13/2013 8:00 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: ... > play with ... > features ...like f2fs and btrfs. ... > I was wondering if anyone is running any of them, and if they are stable > enough for day-to-day use. I see a major disconnect here. Playing with something new is not day-day use. You can buy

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 03:02 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Some of the 'buntus use 3.4, don't they? Packages for Quantal are already > 3.4, but it's unstable. However, it isn't unstable regarding to the kernel. I also build kernels myself for Ubuntu, it still is buggy as hell. On Arch Linux everythin

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:00 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting > the 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the > next long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of > the newer features from

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:12 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I wouldn't use any of the newer file systems until they've been around Oops, that's another story, the kernels I use are stable, but I use ext3 and ext4. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

RE: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Mark Allums
> From: Johan Grönqvist [mailto:johan.gronqv...@gmail.com] > 2013-03-14 02:00, Brad Alexander skrev: > > [...] sid is still sporting > > the 3.2.x kernel. > > [...] I would like to play with some of the > > newer features from the later 3.x kernels from experimental, [...] > > I was wondering if an

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Václav Ovsík
Hi, On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:24:19AM +0100, Johan Grönqvist wrote: >... > I considered installing 3.8 from experimental, but that one seems to > move from the old initramfs tools to something called dracut, so I > decided to stay with 3.7, as it works for me. I'm running: zito@bobek:~$ uname -a

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-13 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2013-03-14 02:00, Brad Alexander skrev: [...] sid is still sporting the 3.2.x kernel. [...] I would like to play with some of the newer features from the later 3.x kernels from experimental, [...] I was wondering if anyone is running any of them, and if they are stable enough for day-to-day use.

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:00:47 -0400 Brad Alexander wrote: > While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting the > 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the next > long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of the newer > features fro

Fwd: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-13 Thread Brad Alexander
Sorry. Didn't check the reply field. -- Forwarded message -- From: Brad Alexander Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:22 PM Subject: Re: newer kernels from experimental? To: g...@dalefamily.org On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > I wouldn't use any

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/03/13 09:00 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting the 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the next long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of the newer features from the later 3.x ker

newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-13 Thread Brad Alexander
While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting the 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the next long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of the newer features from the later 3.x kernels from experimental, like f2fs and btrfs. I w