A good Linux kernel vintage?

[Oron Peled]

On Wednesday, 16 בNovember 2011 17:19:16 Eli Billauer wrote:
> So can anyone point at a kernel version (possibly flavor) which is known 
> to be a successful one?

For upstream kernels, your best shot is to try one of the "stable"
kernels. I.e: those that have 4 numbers version (2.6.x.y)
[or 3 numbers version for 3.x.y kernels]

This is because:
 - They are regularly maintained, because they are used as the
   basis for major distro versions (Debian stable, Redhat/Centos etc.)
   which means you can usually increment 'y' as far as it goes
   for your chosen 'x' with hopefully no regressions etc.

 - Being the basis for major distro kernels also mean they are
   used by a very large population (testing, bug-fixes, etc).

If you choose this route, you may as well pick your distro kernel
(albeit for a different version). You should be carefull about
relations between kernel *packages* for specific versions.

E.g: Fedora moved (don't remember when) to a newer "mkinitrd"
infrastructure called "dracut" -- So I assume a new kernel *package*
would contain post-install scripts that depends on these scripts,
so if your F12 is before the "dracut" transition, you may have
integration problems (need to build/debug this stuff manually).

Bye,

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