<div dir="ltr">I tried to avoid this discussion but I'm a little surprised that nobody mentioned Debian Testing.<div>I've used it as a desktop for a decade or so and it had a great combination of very good stability (i.e. I can't recall it ever disappointed me) and still relatively up to date.</div><div>But then again - it's been a while since I used it.<br></div><div>These days I use Ubuntu LTS for servers and Mac for laptop, and for a few months around a year ago also Ubuntu LTS for a work laptop.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 December 2015 at 06:35, Geoff Shang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoff@quitelikely.com" target="_blank">geoff@quitelikely.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Omer Zak wrote:<br>
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Yet another option is to use Debian Stable as the host operating system,<br>
like I did so far, but compile and install my own kernel builds<br>
according to the instructions in places such as:<br>
<a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-building-installing-a-custom-linux-kernel/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-building-installing-a-custom-linux-kernel/</a><br>
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You can also use Debian Backports to get more recent kernel releases.<br>
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deb <a href="http://httpredir.debian.org/debian" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://httpredir.debian.org/debian</a> jessie-backports main contrib non-free<br>
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Here's the most recent kernel in jessie-backports at time of writing:<br>
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Package: linux-image-4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64<br>
Source: linux<br>
Version: 4.2.6-1~bpo8+1<br>
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HTH,<br>
Geoff.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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