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so nearly all is now considered unstable, 4.9.72 maked a stable kernel for me, 4.12.12 was masked stable but was not stable

how is it on other linux flaviours ?


Regards Benny

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On 01/10/18, Benny Pedersen said the following...

so nearly all is now considered unstable, 4.9.72 maked a stable kernel
for me, 4.12.12 was masked stable but was not stable

Gentoo stable masking is pretty inconsistent. Sometimes they sit on packages for years and other times they unmask with a minimum of testing and break
large swaths of the userbase.

4.9 is a long term release series receiving backported updates like meltdown/ spectre mitigation. You should be fine on that unless you specifically need features implemented in later kernels.

Debian stable is also on 4.9 but does have access to 4.14 backported from buster.

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Hello Benny,

On Wed Jan 10 2018 18:10:50, Benny Pedersen wrote to All:

so nearly all is now considered unstable, 4.9.72 maked a stable kernel
for me, 4.12.12 was masked stable but was not stable

how is it on other linux flaviours ?

I'm using 4.14.12-1-ARCH here and it seems to work fine. I haven't seen any issues in my daily use, at least.

Regards,
Nick

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