[nmglug] Linux kernel 3.0

[Rob Haag]

I vote you do the apt-get dist-upgrade ...it's not really a big deal,
having safety is good  though. I do it now and again just so I don't have
to see apt-get complain about held packages (when there are some).

Rob

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 7:38 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:

> **
> Well that helps me feel better that the 3.0 is no great shakes and I would
> assume that it will all get upgraded eventually anyway.
> So is the consensus that I should do the apt-get dist-upgrade? Sounds like
> it but just making sure. I plan to clone my drive to a larger one anyway
> and then I can do the upgrade on this HD and risk nothing really.
>
>
>
>
> On 01/28/2012 09:02 PM, kevinlowrie wrote:
>
> The best article I found on 3.0 was in LinuxJournal last October/November for those with a subscription.
>
> A quick search on google to find non-subscription based articles came up with this one from PCMAG.com http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388926,00.asp
>
> that sums it up best in the title for the impatient.
>
> For the even more impatient, 3.0 came out 15 years after the 2.0 version released and Linus felt it was time... don't expect anything snazzier than you would from 2.6.39 to 2.6.40... it's the same upgrade (no 2.6.40 to be released...)
>
> Another good summation of the versions here.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel
>
> And for the really curious. Here is the 7/21/2011 post from Linus releasing it with his words.https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/21/455
>
>
> cheers and happy haxin9!
> kevinlowriekevinlowrie at gmail.com
>
> The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law...
> A.Einstein
>
> On Jan 23, 2012, at 11:52 , Mark Galassi wrote:
>
>
>    BrianO'Keefe> Hi all, I'm finding lots of "how-tos" on the web to
>    BrianO'Keefe> install the 3.0 kernel. Is this advisable as i am
>    BrianO'Keefe> running Ubuntu 10.10?
>
> In general I would stick to the kernel updates from your distribution
> unless you are doing very special things.
>
> Note that it might be a bad idea to run 10.10 for so long: 10.10 is not
> a "long term support" release, so it's probably best to keep it current.
>
> See this page for a description of the LTS releases and expiration in
> general.
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
>
> Vis-a-vis your updates, sometimes an explicit deliberate install of one
> or two might then make apt-get install them all:
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get -u install linux-image-generic
>
> and see if that changes things.
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