On 11/11/2019 09:11 AM, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 11/11/2019 à 16:05, David C. Rankin a écrit :
code added between 3.10 and 5.3
my not so old android phone use 3.18. May be a very good kernel :-))
jdd
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. The key for any old kernel is that they are patched for any of the security issues that have been found since their original release and now. That's basically what openSUSE and SuSE do as well. Yes, the 5.3 kernel is out, but openSUSE is on 4.12. The 4.4 used with 42.3 did everything I needed (and it still had the version of valgrind that accurately reported user allocated memory and excluded what stdio used) Unless you have bleeding-edge hardware that requires new module X from kernel Y, a newer kernel will provide little to no benefit. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org