[nmglug] Linux kernel 3.0

[Rob Haag]

I've been using the 3.0 Kernel since I upgraded to 11.10 (pretty sure thats
when it came in). It's been stable, I'm not sure what benefits I'm getting
from it though...maybe a better CPU scheduler? Probably loads of other
stuff, I remember reading some stuff in Linux Pro, it had a 'list' of
changes. Here's a detailed list http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0

Anyhow, as far as packages that are being held back, first (as usual) do a
'sudo apt-get update'...then do a 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' .., it will
upgrade your kept packages (packages being held back). This won't upgrade
your distribution, unless you change your sources.list to point to the new
repository (not the recommended way of upgrading distributions though),
this should just remove obsoleted packages and install new dependencies and
upgrade your held back packages...of course, as always, read the before
hitting 'Y'. Check out 'man apt-get' to get the full scoop from the man
page..

Good luck...

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:01 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:

> **
> Hi all,
>
> I'm finding lots of "how-tos" on the web to install the 3.0 kernel. Is
> this advisable as i am running Ubuntu 10.10? I am getting lots of updates
> that I can't install in the Update Manager and I'm wondering if it's
> because of the kernel and dependencies.
>
> Here's apt-get in the terminal:
>
> "sudo apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   banshee banshee-extension-soundmenu gnome-control-center grub-common
> grub-pc
>   grub2 gtk2-engines-pixbuf launchpad-integration libboost-all-dev
>   libgail-common libgail-dev libgail18 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
> libgtk2.0-dev
>   libical0 liblaunchpad-integration1 liblaunchpad-integration1.0-cil
>   libplymouth2 libvmime0 linux-generic linux-headers-generic
>   linux-image-generic mintmenu plymouth plymouth-label plymouth-x11
>   python-launchpad-integration python-qgis python-qgis-common
>   python-software-properties qgis qgis-common qgis-plugin-grass
>   qgis-plugin-grass-common qgis-providers qgis-providers-common
>   software-properties-gtk software-properties-kde tomboy usb-creator-common
>   usb-creator-gtk usb-creator-kde xchat xchat-common yelp
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   libt1-5 libxml2 libxml2-dev libxml2-utils python-libxml2
> 5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded.
> Need to get 2,193kB of archives.
> After this operation, 8,192B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? "
>
> Many thanks
>
> Brian
>
>
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