13 Jun
2019
13 Jun
'19
7:56 a.m.
HI
I would like everyone's opinion on this.
I'm trying figure out the benefits of either staying with the LTS kernel or
with the lastest kernel. The machines are every day use and stability is
important.
Am I tossing away any benefits, of the latest kernel, if I use the 4.8x/9x
kernel. Or do the benefits of the 5.1x kernel out weigh any instability?
I'd like all schools of thought.
Thanks in advance,
Kate
13 Jun
13 Jun
8:04 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] About a Kernel
Anno domini 2019 Thu, 13 Jun 03:56:13 -0400
BorgLabs - Kate Draven scripsit:
HI
I would like everyone's opinion on this.
I'm trying figure out the benefits of either staying with the LTS kernel or
with the lastest kernel. The machines are every day use and stability is
important.
Am I tossing away any benefits, of the latest kernel, if I use the 4.8x/9x
kernel. Or do the benefits of the 5.1x kernel out weigh any instability?
I'd like all schools of thought.
Just my 2¢: If you are not running into any issue with the old/stable kernel, why change?
Is somthing in 5.XX, that you miss now? You might get bitten by something like the
thinkpad_acpi-spaming-dmesg-issue as happened to me. Is the 5.XX packaged with your
distribution? If not, then I would not do it (well, I maybe would on my testmachine, but
not on something that's not in my instant reach).
Nik
Thanks in advance,
Kate
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4:46 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] About a Kernel
On Thursday 13 June 2019 03:04:44 am Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2019 Thu, 13 Jun 03:56:13 -0400
BorgLabs - Kate Draven scripsit:
I agree with Nik, unless there is some burning reason I need the latest and
greatest (5.x), then for anything resembling 'production' use, I stick with a
proven LTS. I consider whatever I run my email on as 'production' use, as it
has all my business correspondence on it...
On the other hand, if you can legitimately lose everything and have the time
to restore backups, then it is fun to be running the latest and greatest...
Best Kate,
Michael
HI
I would like everyone's opinion on this.
I'm trying figure out the benefits of either staying with the LTS kernel
or with the lastest kernel. The machines are every day use and stability
is important.
Am I tossing away any benefits, of the latest kernel, if I use the
4.8x/9x kernel. Or do the benefits of the 5.1x kernel out weigh any
instability?
I'd like all schools of thought.
Just my 2¢: If you are not running into any issue with the old/stable
kernel, why change? Is somthing in 5.XX, that you miss now? You might get
bitten by something like the thinkpad_acpi-spaming-dmesg-issue as happened
to me. Is the 5.XX packaged with your distribution? If not, then I would
not do it (well, I maybe would on my testmachine, but not on something
that's not in my instant reach).
Nik 
17 Jun
17 Jun
3:29 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] About a Kernel
On 06/13/2019 02:56 AM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
HI
I would like everyone's opinion on this.
I'm trying figure out the benefits of either staying with the LTS kernel or
with the lastest kernel. The machines are every day use and stability is
important.
Am I tossing away any benefits, of the latest kernel, if I use the 4.8x/9x
kernel. Or do the benefits of the 5.1x kernel out weigh any instability?
I'd like all schools of thought.
Thanks in advance,
Kate
Kate,
Unless you have super-new bleeding-edge hardware that needs a new feature
added in 5.1 that is not available in previous versions -- then 5.1 provides
absolutely no benefit. Any tweak that 5.1 provided to help with Spectre
performance mitigation, etc.. will likely be backported and in a LTS kernel.
I have Arch (that always runs the current upstream version of the kernel,
5.1.9 currently), and Arch also provides an LTS kernel using 4.19. I have a
SuSE leap 42.3 install running the 4.4 kernel, SuSE leap 15.0/15.1 installs
with the 4.12 version, I have a Pi running Debian/jessie with the 4.9 ARM
kernel, and from a general computing/feature/functionality standpoint, it
makes no difference.
Now if you have bleeding-edge hardware that is only supported in the latest
greatest kernel -- then yes, there is a difference, otherwise you won't know
the difference.
HTH
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
5:54 p.m.
BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
I'm trying figure out the benefits of either
staying with the LTS kernel
or with the lastest kernel. The machines are every day use and stability
is important.
Am I tossing away any benefits, of the latest kernel, if I use the 4.8x/9x
kernel. Or do the benefits of the 5.1x kernel out weigh any instability?
I'd like all schools of thought.
I heard 4.19 will be next LST and I've been using this since couple of
months already. I must admit, that it is very good and I will be staying on
it when upgrading to Buster.
You upgrade if you need to upgrade, no one is forcing you to do so.
regards
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Michael