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3.8.x is working well for me, since 3.8.10 a hard lock up problem I was getting in 3.x kernels has been resolved. I would use 3.4, but due to the aforementioned problem will have to wait for the next LTS to appear... it's annoying but what can you do.
Well, Pat could always delay the release until around Christmas and ship with the next LTS once it's been released and had time to settle in. Actually, that doesn't sound so bad: one new Slackware release each year, somewhere around Christmas, each one based off a new LTS kernel, guaranteeing two years of upstream kernel support for each Slackware release.
Well, Pat could always delay the release until around Christmas and ship with the next LTS once it's been released and had time to settle in. Actually, that doesn't sound so bad: one new Slackware release each year, somewhere around Christmas, each one based off a new LTS kernel, guaranteeing two years of upstream kernel support for each Slackware release.
+1. I'm also in the same favor and requested the same in the 14.1 voting thread.
Since Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring" uses the 3.8 kernel, the Ubuntu kernel team
will pick up stable maintenance where Greg KH left off[0] with 3.8.13
(thanks, Greg!)...
The Ubuntu kernel team is pleased to announce that we will be providing
extended stable support for the Linux 3.8 kernel until August 2014 as a
third party effort maintained on our infrastructure.
Our linux-3.8.y{-queue,-review} stable branches will fork from 3.8.13
and will be published here:
That's great news, maybe 3.8 can be kept after all in current. I wonder if they will apply any out of tree patches tho.
From the link in your quote:
Quote:
All patches for the stable releases maintained by the Ubuntu kernel team should be submitted upstream, following the stable upstream acceptance rules (see Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt in the upstream kernel source tree for more information).
The Ubuntu Kernel Team should monitor and pick the relevant stable patches automatically once they are released with upstream stable.
So as I understand it they only apply patches released by upstream, so no out of tree patches.
well it's basically the same approach used by Greg
patches that goes into stable kernel are usually found on upstream tree (linus' tree) that goes on development for the next RC or final version of the next major release
+1. I'm also in the same favor and requested the same in the 14.1 voting thread.
Agreed. At this juncture, if Slack 14.1 were to come out *today* I'd even be tempted to say "3.2" because it *still* seems to be the longest-supported, being targetted for EOL in 2016 as opposed to 2014 or what have you.
Also, where is this 14.1 voting thread? I can't seem to find it on here.
If -current(64) goes back to 3.4 then will the dreaded samsung-laptop bricking problem be an issue again? Fixes for that (such as they were) were introduced late in the 3.7 series I believe.
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