On Thursday 13 June 2019 03:04:44 am Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

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Anno domini 2019 Thu, 13 Jun 03:56:13 -0400

BorgLabs - Kate Draven scripsit:

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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=A2: 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

I agree with Nik, unless there is some burning reason I need the latest and= =20 greatest (5.x), then for anything resembling 'production' use, I stick with= a=20 proven LTS. I consider whatever I run my email on as 'production' use, as = it=20 has all my business correspondence on it...

On the other hand, if you can legitimately lose everything and have the tim= e=20 to restore backups, then it is fun to be running the latest and greatest...

Best Kate, Michael

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Thank you Michael,

The logic is sound. Again something I've leaned toward but I wanted to make sure I wasn't making a mistake.

Again, the beauty of the community,

Kate