On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 07:02 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 2.6.32 is the current long-term-stable-support release.  If I were running 
> my kernels as long as you do, that's what I'd be upgrading to, because 
> it'll be supported (and get security and bug patch support in further 
> stable releases) for some time yet, not the 2.6.29 that's no longer 
> upstream supported.  
> 
> I'd STRONGLY suggest you do whatever research you might wish to, to 
> confirm what I just stated, and then then seriously consider 2.6.32.  
> Either that, or go back to 2.6.27, because altho its support is about to 
> end (again, unless someone else picks it up), it has been supported as a 
> long-term-stable for quite some time now and has a lot more of the bugs 
> worked out than 2.6.29 will ever get.

Well you're right about that.  The current portage tree, in fact, has 
2.6.34-r6 as the stable release.

I run a couple of small businesses, one of which (my music biz) requires
me to periodically do some traveling, so I'm away and pretty busy a lot.
My pattern has been to get my various Gentoo and Ubuntu systems into a
stable state and leave them, especially my desktop, since I'm often
critically strapped for time, and tinkering with Linux gets pushed to a
back burner.

I'll probably get kernel 2.6.34, update udev, and give it another shot.

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