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On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:58 PM Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Does anyone know why the latest stable version of Gentoo-sources is 4.9.xx ? |
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> I installed 4.9.16 , which I continue to use, on 2017-04-06 . |
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> The tree contains versions of 4.14 4.16 4.17 , but all are still testing. |
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I believe that some had been complaining about stability issues with |
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4.14, but personally I've been fine with it, and since I have a Ryzen |
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CPU I want something that has the SMT support enabled. |
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4.9 is a longterm series, but the current upstream release is 4.9.110, |
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and the Gentoo stable release is 4.9.95, so you seem to be pretty far |
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behind. From a security standpoint a /recent/ 4.9 kernel should be |
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fine. |
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The gentoo patches do sometimes fix things and their curation might |
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help you avoid some issues, but personally I tend to just use my own |
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upstream kernels. I'm following the 4.14 longterm and generally |
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update within a few days of any release. That said, I have been |
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burned by the odd regression (a build last week actually was rebooting |
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on me, which usually isn't something I have trouble with). Usually I |
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migrate to a new longterm after it has been out for a few months, and |
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only if it has zfs support. |
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I don't know what the Gentoo plans are for 4.14 - I know they've been |
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avoiding it for a while. I'm not sure if they ever plan to move to |
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it, or if they're just hoping to skip it entirely. I think we should |
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be getting a new longterm sometime in the next few months. |
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Rich |
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