On 06/13/2019 02:56 AM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: > 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. > > Thanks in advance, > > Kate Kate, Unless you have super-new bleeding-edge hardware that needs a new feature added in 5.1 that is not available in previous versions -- then 5.1 provides absolutely no benefit. Any tweak that 5.1 provided to help with Spectre performance mitigation, etc.. will likely be backported and in a LTS kernel. I have Arch (that always runs the current upstream version of the kernel, 5.1.9 currently), and Arch also provides an LTS kernel using 4.19. I have a SuSE leap 42.3 install running the 4.4 kernel, SuSE leap 15.0/15.1 installs with the 4.12 version, I have a Pi running Debian/jessie with the 4.9 ARM kernel, and from a general computing/feature/functionality standpoint, it makes no difference. Now if you have bleeding-edge hardware that is only supported in the latest greatest kernel -- then yes, there is a difference, otherwise you won't know the difference. HTH -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
