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Stable kernel 3.7.10Stable kernel 3.7.10Posted Feb 28, 2013 2:51 UTC (Thu) by apolinsky (subscriber, #19556)Parent article: Stable kernel 3.7.10
I am not your state of the art adopter, dealing with kernels supplied by various distributions. Most of my machines have derivatives of the 2.6 kernel, since I use Slackware (12.1,12.2 13.1), Centos (5.9 and 6.3) and Debian Squeeze. Can someone suggest what the advantages of the newer kernels are other than handling later equipment?
Thank you.
Alan
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Stable kernel 3.7.10 Posted Feb 28, 2013 3:25 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
I too use old distro kernels. What I believe after reading LWN for years is that the kernel is now very stable with incremental performance improvements. Not to say that work on the kernel has slowed, there are always massive internal restructuring projects, dead and duplicate code removal, fleshing out capabilities for virtualization and namespaces but the days of major changes critical for users seem to be behind us.
Stable kernel 3.7.10 Posted Feb 28, 2013 11:36 UTC (Thu) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link]
You can persue the "human friendly changelogs" published by www.kernelnewbies.org.
Newest kernel:
Older kernels:
Stable kernel 3.7.10 Posted Feb 28, 2013 21:51 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Why, features of course. Newer kernels are much better at energy savings: my AOpen S110 used to whir quite a bit before 3.6, now it is very quiet (seldom goes above 50 C). CONFIG_PREEMPT is now almost flawless -- no random stallings or strange locks. WiFi works like magic. ext4 is cool. Hardware support is always nice. And so on...The kernel can be said to be one of the few select projects where upgrading almost invariably brings more joy than pain. With Free software this is often the case, but not always.
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