What kernel sources do you use? why?

nitro4ce · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2007 Posts: 24

Poll!

eccerr0r · Advocate Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 2354 Location: USA

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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enderandrew · l33t Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 731

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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Mantaar · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 219

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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SiberianSniper · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:45 am Post subject:

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:

Phenax · l33t Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 972

gentoo-sources.

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

dmpogo · Advocate Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 2032 Location: Canada

wuzzerd · Guru Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 378 Location: New Mexico

Normally gentoo-sources. I did use vanilla for awhile when something was broken. Eventually I figured out what was wrong with the .config.

davidgurvich · Veteran Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 1063

vanilla-sources for 2 reasons. Third party patches are usually against the vanilla kernel, plus more people have access to it to find bugs.

nightmorph · Developer Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1382 Location: SoCal

For my desktop, I use my own: night-sources. See the page for why. For the laptop, I mostly use gentoo-sources, though since it triple-boots I do have Arch Linux's stock kernel26 (that kernel is a real piece o'crap, FYI).
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ToeiRei · Veteran Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 1113 Location: Austria

I am using my own patchset...
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bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5213

gentoo-sources, but i need to add a patch to my mythtv setup so my remote can work.

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AllenJB · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:36 am Post subject:

gentoo-sources (main), suspend2-sources (laptop) and xen-sources (sandbox).
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nixnut · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject:

hardened-sources for my desktop system, gentoo-sources for my development machine.
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Neo2 · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 224 Location: Italy

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

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John R. Graham · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject:

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

- John

lmmsci · Apprentice Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 190

I've been using ck-sources and viper branch. Now I'm using kamikaze sources. Excellent patchset.

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Pithlit · l33t Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 887 Location: fuhen

What can I say... vanilla just tastes awesome.
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Mantaar · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 219

Genone · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:07 am Post subject:

djdunn · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject:

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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Mantaar · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 219

SwissBushIndian · n00b Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 27

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.

Urban Cowboy · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 64

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"