kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
On Wednesday 06 July 2011 07:37:44 pm Per Jessen wrote:
kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
It seems that there are a few stallwarts out there, yours truly one of us, who still use suse 11.3, 11.2, 11.1 and even 10.x as the main os. Most of these os's are out of maintenance, so a kernel upgrade would have to be manual. If you have upgraded the kernel in an out of maintenance system, can you please post a comment or two on the result?
Nothing much to say except it's no big deal. Get the kernel source you want, configure it using the existing config.gz as a base, then build and install. Recreate initrd.
-- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.8°C)
Thanks Per, actually the question is more about the after effects of a kernel upgrade rather than the mechanics of it. the two basic reasons for an upgrade are of course security and functionality. sooo, has it worked?
Yes, there's really no reason why it shouldn't.
Have the people stayed with an updated kernel? what problems were encountered? any regressions ? any great improvements?
The only reasons I've had to upgrade has been functionality - hardware or network (lvs, iptables) in my case. AFAIR, the openSUSE kernel comes with a number of patches, which might not apply cleanly to newer kernels (for instance because they've been applied upstream), but you get to choose if you need them or not :-)
fyi, the os this posting is coming thru is 11.1 and uname gives me the last official kernel for it: 2.6.27.56-0.1-default ! i have played with upgrades in test partirions, also played with 11.3 and 11.4 in tests, now i am considering an upgrade of the basic os. And I was thinking that perhaps a kernel upgrade might provide almost all the benefits of a later os, without all the hassles. or is that wrong?
I think that is wrong, yes. When you compare two versions of openSUSE, the significant differences are found in the applications, not in the kernel. (sometimes in the kernel too of course). I'm posting this from my 10.3 workstation running 2.6.22.5-31-default. It's long overdue for an upgrade, but I'm hanging on to my old working konqueror. :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (19.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org