Stable kernel 2.6.25.3 released [LWN.net]

Stable kernel 2.6.25.3 released

Posted May 12, 2008 15:16 UTC (Mon) by gregkh (subscriber, #8)
In reply to: Stable kernel 2.6.25.3 released by patrick_g
Parent article: Stable kernel 2.6.25.3 released

>2.6.24 is the kernel of the last Ubuntu version 8.04 (Long Term Support)
> and it will be supported three years (desktop version) or five years
>(server version).

That's great if you are a Ubunutu customer, but that is not going to help you out if you are a
kernel.org 2.6.24 user as the Ubuntu developers do not contribute their fixes/changes
upstream, and their 2.6.24 kernel is very heavily modified from what the kernel.org version
looks like.

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kernel.org kernels on Debian

Posted May 12, 2008 17:12 UTC (Mon) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

It's pretty easy to keep up to date with 2.6.x.y on Debian.

sudo apt-get install ketchup make-kpkg

Keep an unpacked copy of a recent version in your home directory, then:

cd linux-*
ketchup -r
make oldconfig
make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot clean
make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot kernel_image 
cd ..

and sudo dpkg -i to install the new kernel package.

Haven't tried this on Ubuntu.