feisty generic kernel

jaymoney · 05-03-2007, 05:34 PM

is in normal that a fresh install of 7.04 comes with the generic kernel. my old kernel in 6.10 i believe was for i386. why would ubuntu come default with a generic kernel? is there anyway i upgrade to an x86 specific kernel?

Okie · 05-03-2007, 07:22 PM

i don't know for sure but i am willing to bet ubuntu has a heavily patched kernel to run all its proprietary drivers that are included. so downloading and building a vanilla kernel from source (untainted) from kernel.org wont run all of what is included with ubutnu,..

fragos · 05-03-2007, 09:05 PM

In Ubuntu 6.10 the i386 kernel supported all x86 and x86_64 as 32 bit. In 7.04 SMP support for AMD X2 and Core Duo as 32 bit was also rolled into the basic kernel now called generic. IMHO, Ubuntu 7.04 performance with the generic kernel exceeds that of 6.10 with the i386 kernel. The boot is faster and application start up is faster which may have more to do with factors other than the kernel. My CPU is a 64 bit AMD Sempron +2800.