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What kernel sources do you prefer?
vanilla-sources
11%
 11%  [ 77 ]
gentoo-sources
68%
 68%  [ 480 ]
other
20%
 20%  [ 141 ]
Total Votes : 698

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:37 pm    Post subject: What kernel sources do you use? why? Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

On my Gentoo boxes, I use a Gentoo kernel since most people will expect that on the Gentoo forums you're using a Gentoo kernel...
Which really doesn't matter as most of the times I end up ruling out all Gentoo hacks as the reason for feature X not working and it gets redirected upstream anyway...

I guess it doesn't matter for me either way, whichever happens to be ready and uncompressed gets used... I don't think I'm going out of my way to patch all of Gentoo patches to build a kernel for non-Gentoo box...
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mm-sources, viper-sources, nitro-sources, no-sources, kamikaze-sources, etc. I like to try them all. I am a fan of Reiser4, and many bleeding edge patchsets.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I'm using/maintaining my own, not controlled by the package manager.

Heck, I just booted the new 2.6.23 with CFS and Realtime patches... that thing is fscking fast!
Seriously, I never thought that random kernel hackery could give you that much of an improvement in terms of desktop performance, but this thing is really s(l)ick...

Darn, gotta get away from Gentoo, already sounding like a real ricer... ;-)
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm still using 2.6.21-ck. SD works great and I've had nothing but trouble with 2.6.22. But I might give 2.6.23 a try someday when I'm sufficiently bored :wink:
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gentoo-sources.

Nice, stable, nothing breaks, no drama, fully supported, no insanely short/long update schedule.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Phenax wrote:
gentoo-sources.

Nice, stable, nothing breaks, no drama, fully supported, no insanely short/long update schedule.


Exactly. I also use gentoo-sources, but I compile with my own config.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Normally gentoo-sources. I did use vanilla for awhile when something was broken. Eventually I figured out what was wrong with the .config.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

vanilla-sources for 2 reasons. Third party patches are usually against the vanilla kernel, plus more people have access to it to find bugs.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am using my own patchset...
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gentoo-sources, but i need to add a patch to my mythtv setup so my remote can work. 8O
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gentoo-sources (main), suspend2-sources (laptop) and xen-sources (sandbox).
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hardened-sources for my desktop system, gentoo-sources for my development machine.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Always gentoo-sources for me. They're mantained by gentoo team and are the default for kernel installation. As long as they work fine, I'll keep them :P
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use gentoo-sources plus the Reiser4 patchset, which has been rock solid for me.

- John
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been using ck-sources and viper branch. Now I'm using kamikaze sources. Excellent patchset.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Phenax wrote:
gentoo-sources.
Nice, stable, nothing breaks, no drama, fully supported, no insanely short/long update schedule.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What can I say... vanilla just tastes awesome.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pithlit wrote:
What can I say... vanilla just tastes awesome.

You have no framebuffer?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mantaar wrote:
Pithlit wrote:
What can I say... vanilla just tastes awesome.

You have no framebuffer?

Why do you think that?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Normally, id probably do Vanilla but, like everything else i fell on love with about Gentoo over the years the minimalist patches on are really nice.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Genone wrote:
Mantaar wrote:
Pithlit wrote:
What can I say... vanilla just tastes awesome.

You have no framebuffer?

Why do you think that?

:roll: Right. Sometimes I forget that there actually are cards where it works. I do not consider vesafb to be working though, as it is so slow it takes more than a second to display a manpage (on my machine). And it slows down anything with verbose output considerably, especially a plain emerge.

Me, I couldn't even live without Spcok's great new uvesafb. That thing is so great.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gentoo sources on both my machines at home and suspend2-sources on my laptop. On one machine (which is more or less there for testing) I have different Kernels once in a while, but I usually stick to gentoo-sources most of the time, I do like vanilla-sources as well.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ha.. I think the poll needs more options. I usually use gentoo sources, but I have used vanilla and hardened. I tried nitro, but the power went out during the install and a few things got REALLY screwy.

How many supported kernels are there?

gentoo
vanilla
ck
hardened
mm
nitro
kamikaze

That's just off the top of my head.. and i'm not sure which ones are officially "supported"
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