On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 7:11 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Friday 10 July 2015 23:48:40 [email protected] wrote: >> > Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > I'd hardly call 3.16 ancient, but it isn't a supported stable kernel. >> > > If you want longterm I'd stick with 3.18 or 3.14. >> > >> > Thanks, [any way] to tell which ones are supported? >> >> What's wrong with eix? It gives you a nice, easily understood list of all the >> current versions. > > But it does not tell me which are "supported". I use "unstable gentoo" > amd so I have kernels up to 4.1 something -- whenever I do an update it > gives me another one. >
It will show which ones are stable and which ones are not. In some sense anything in portage is supported, but if it isn't the highest version in a particular series you should consider it deprecated (ie the support is providing you the newer version to upgrade to). The kernel is slotted far more than most packages in Gentoo, and that reflects its importance, system call stability, and the degree to which upstream provides longterm support. -- Rich
