On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 4:55 PM David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
There is nothing wrong with old kernels so long as your hardware doesn't need anything that was added later. Look at RH, Debian, Slackware, etc... All have older kernels, and the do fine. All of my boxes, except maybe the laptop would do fine on 3X kernels. I don't have bleeding-edge gadgets.
I agree that for a server this is okay. But we are talking about desktops. One is on a new Dell XPS laptop. Other system are on equally new hardware. We are (finally) moving in to using GPUs in our image processing. I cannot see myself really using RHEL 7 as a serious desktop environment. I'm adventurous. I'm not insane...
Unless you have bleeding-edge hardware that requires new module X from kernel Y, a newer kernel will provide little to no benefit.
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