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From: Wol <antlists@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:56:53
Message-Id: 88fa6b3c-c5f3-cd68-cbd8-1633d695e016@youngman.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version by Michael
1 On 14/11/2022 21:44, Michael wrote:
2 > Shutting down your desktop applications and rebooting with a new kernel takes
3 > no longer than a couple of minutes. I mean even busy bank customer web
4 > portals have planned downtime.
5
6
7 There's a lot more to it than that ...
8
9 The reason I don't run new kernels all the time, is that finding the
10 time to actually copy the old config, make, make modules, make install,
11 fix grub, sort out problems, reboot, is actually quite hard.
12
13 It's not just a few minutes ...
14
15 Cheers,
16 Wol