Hi, On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 11:41:08AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 16:19:06 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > See: > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/HowToUpgradeKernel > > > > for hot to get your kernel from "experimental". > > That's horrifying. > > A much safer choice would be to use trixie-backports. > See <https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/> for that.
I agree, but that only gets OP 6.17.x which is not what they said they wanted. 6.18.x from experimental is not going to be worse than building your own 6.18 LTS kernel package from upstream source, which appears to be what they are doing now. > The "experimental" branch, on the other hand, is simply "something the > maintainer uploaded today, but doesn't believe is ready for unstable yet". As far as I understand for the kernel packages they are just "upstream with usual Debian patches" and automatically produced when new upstream kernels are released, so pretty safe, if one is already used to building their own kernels from upstream. But as I said, I wouldn't do it unless I had no other choice. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
