1. Do you intend to configure the kernel by yourself or just install it and boot? 2. I use 2.6.38 on gentoo without problems for a couple of months already on 2 machines. It also has gentoo patches. 3. Which requirements are important to you?
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Eli Billauer <e...@billauer.co.il> wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm running Fedora 12 on my main computer, with no intentions to upgrade > the entire system (as I have a lot of non-distribution software which will > be headache to reinstall). My choice of distribution in indeed > questionable, but not the issue. > > > I'd like to upgrade my kernel to anything > 2.6.36. But as many of you > know, Linux kernels are a bit like wine: You know if you got a good one > only after opening the bottle and waiting a little. > > > So can anyone point at a kernel version (possibly flavor) which is known > to be a successful one? I'm not looking for answers such as "I'm running > kernel X.XX.XX with no problems". You may have problems you're not aware > of. For example, I want to leave 2.6.35 because of that pretty famous > system freeze under intensive disk load. > > > What I would like to hear, is if someone can point at a certain kernel > version, which is well-known to be a success. One that is, in > retrospective, free from any serious bugs (such as the one mentioned above). > > > Any recommendations? > > > Thanks, > > Eli > > -- > Web: http://www.billauer.co.il > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/**mailman/listinfo/linux-il<http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il> >
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