I didn't payed much attention to the kernel version since the late '90.

My chosen distributions packet manager offers a new kernel? -- Upgrade procedure invoked. That procedure might be a gruff "Not now, Saturday!" for my private boxen or the rather cumbersome, formal procedure at my workplace.

I read somewhere, that kernel version x.y.a has a weakness? -- I check, when the security team of my chosen distribution offers a fix and ... well, invoke the upgrade procedure.

I read somewhere, that Really Useful Feature is in kernel version x.y.b -- I'll check, IF a business case for Really Useful Feature exists OR I write a proposal to use Really Useful Feature ELSE I wait, 'till my chosen distribution offers kernel version x.y.b FI Invoke upgrade procedure.

Yupp, I like boring.

To person #9. Thank you for the answer to my question 4.15.0-43 is the version I found using uname -a
Regards, Rod. (jacko777)

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Hello everyone,

A standard debian or ubuntu install are (in my case) always shipped with the right generic kernel.
Works great, straight out of the box.

When in need for compiling my own kernel, I would choose the version that comes from the same era as my hardware.
For instance, I once used a pentium 4 as a router, using TinyCore Linux. In that case I compiled a 2.0.38 kernel.
Also, a version 4 kernel suited fine.

For research, I have read "Understanding the Linux kernel" written by Daniel Bovet and Marco Cesati.
In this case, is started studying the 0.99 kernel.

Compiling my own kernel was fortunately almost never needed, as there are lots of difficult questions asked in the menuconfig.

The first kernel I used was 2.2.13. The last 2.x kernel I used was 2.6.39.4. I usually stick with the latest LTS kernel these days, currently running 4.19.17.

AFAIK there is a command like "make oldconfig" which loads the parameters your distributor used in compiling your current kernel. Maybe this ist of help for you...

You might want to try openSUSE tumbleweed. It usually has the newest KDE and you can try it on an USB-stick to test switching to Japanese writing.

Your last sentence is seconded .

I'm not sure but maybe "digicam" could be of help there.

Thanks for this hint!!!

well 15 broke my limemint 18.3 cinnamon GUI. cinnamon crashed after this FIRST release.. fell back to 13. probably only on this machine but I'm not doing anymore kernel updates on this box after a few of them failed to fix the issue. will probably revert back to ubuntu on my next build now that they returned to gnome 3 after that awful hiatus to unity.I didn't understand shuttleworth's original decision to abandon gnome one damn bit.. why fix something that works and go on a wild tangent thinking you're gonna create a new world (when you're already years behind the eight ball?).

as we all know a new OS is a LOT of work and especially for me... yeah simply think about all the additional "dictionary" entries one makes to libre as an example. I work quite a bit in eclipse as well (neon 3). is it gonna work in the new OS? we customize a LOTTA stuff when we've been running an OS for a few YEARS. this is not an experience that windoze users deal with because they just replace a box instead of upgrade it like most of us do.

anyhow 18.3 is coming up on EOL so gotta start thinking about the dreaded upgrade. my MOBO also has others in waiting but will continue with the one I have, oh well. I use a ducted fan in my box (ALL other fans are removed (even the CPU fan)) as I pump bigtime (filtered) CFM's through in those puny fan's place! result? my MOBO's last forever (as of course, thermal is thy enemy)! downside? a bit noisy. so what do you want... noise? or a broken MOBO?

Well it may be old; but with Debian Stretch 4.9 (I use Stretch KDE) is way solid.

Hi folks
I've been running CENTOS 7 with KDE plasma desktop for ages -- still has 3.10 kernel - and is as stable as a rock.
Used daily as a NAS server and streaming Music and Video which I play on remote smart TV's via an Amazon firestick with KODI installed. I also backup users windows data on a daily basis and also have a trial SAP ABAP 7.52 system on the box too.

One can upgrade CENTOS 7 to kernel 4 but I can't be bothered as my current system just runs perfectly. I also run 3 Windows Virtual machines on that box too - 1 Windows 10, 1 Windows XP and 1 Windows 7 -- no real problem with those either

I'll just wait until CENTOS 8 comes out --- I know CENTOS might not be full of latest innovatons but it's built on RHEL which is also reliable and stability for me is far more important than messing around with leading edge stuff. I have real users for my system so tinkering with it might cause some aggro anyway. !!

Judging by comments in various Windows forums recently Linux is at the point now of being able to make serious inroads into the desktop / workstation market.

Hopefully Linux will still be around after the next 25 years !!!

(Posting from a laptop accessing a Windows VM via RDP running on my Centos box).

Cheers

4.18 running well for me -- on older laptop with Debian 9/KDE Plasma - Thank you to all the brilliant developers out there --

Bill Clark

Slackware 12.2 with kernel 2.6.27.* has always stuck in my memory as a particularly good era, but things move on. I just use whatever the latest stable release is. Currently 4.20.4.

I like the current stable ones, they work better with the hardware on my systems.

Debian 9/mate or Plasma minimal seems way to go, too bad there's quite a few problems between installer and what is installed as same kernel that installer uses doesn't pass to actual installed system, which makes really big issue in some cases like mounting filesystems at offline system.

Still I think Debian 9 is way to go.