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What kernel sources do you prefer? |
vanilla-sources |
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gentoo-sources |
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other |
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tylerwylie Guru
Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 458 Location: /US/Georgia/Atlanta
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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Monkeh wrote: | Latest -rc release off kernel.org (-git if available) plus any required patches. Stable kernels are for the weak. | Everyone says that until something bad happens. |
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Monkeh Veteran
Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 1656 Location: England
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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tylerwylie wrote: | Monkeh wrote: | Latest -rc release off kernel.org (-git if available) plus any required patches. Stable kernels are for the weak. | Everyone says that until something bad happens. |
Well, on my hardware, bad things happen if I use stable kernels. |
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tylerwylie Guru
Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 458 Location: /US/Georgia/Atlanta
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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Monkeh wrote: | tylerwylie wrote: | Monkeh wrote: | Latest -rc release off kernel.org (-git if available) plus any required patches. Stable kernels are for the weak. | Everyone says that until something bad happens. |
Well, on my hardware, bad things happen if I use stable kernels. | Oh me too, if I use gentoo...
Fortunately I have found the light. |
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Monkeh Veteran
Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 1656 Location: England
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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tylerwylie wrote: | Monkeh wrote: | tylerwylie wrote: | Monkeh wrote: | Latest -rc release off kernel.org (-git if available) plus any required patches. Stable kernels are for the weak. | Everyone says that until something bad happens. |
Well, on my hardware, bad things happen if I use stable kernels. | Oh me too, if I use gentoo...
Fortunately I have found the light. |
Fedora? Lucky if it even boots on my hardware. Fat chance of getting it to install (1: It'd never see the DVD drive. 2: I won't waste bandwidth with a whole DVD, and it wouldn't get my NIC to work either). |
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NorthGoingZax Apprentice
Joined: 03 Dec 2002 Posts: 189
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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Tuxonice here, I love hibernate . |
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huffd n00b
Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 33
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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mm- for me, got to have that reiser4! |
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huuan Apprentice
Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 265 Location: California
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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hardened-sources for server and backup server but gentoo-sources for home machine. |
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Roman_Gruber Advocate
Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 3846 Location: Austro Bavaria
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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NorthGoingZax wrote: | Tuxonice here, I love hibernate . |
Mee, too. Should be added to gentoo sources!! |
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jonnevers Veteran
Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 1594 Location: Gentoo64 land
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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anyone else notice a distinct lack of custom kernel patchsets the last couple months? there are a handful but nothing like we used to see. any ideas why they all dried up? (besides the strain of maintaining them)
i'm back to gentoo-sources.... only real alternative is zen-sources. |
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Zerodark Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 83
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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NorthGoingZax wrote: | Tuxonice here, I love hibernate . |
Same, though I'm thinking about trying the zen-sources. Just have to read up a bit on them first. |
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Simba7 l33t
Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Posts: 706 Location: Billings, MT, USA
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Monkeh wrote: | Fedora? Lucky if it even boots on my hardware. Fat chance of getting it to install (1: It'd never see the DVD drive. 2: I won't waste bandwidth with a whole DVD, and it wouldn't get my NIC to work either). |
I don't like Redhat.. Period.. It's a bloated distro and doesn't support what I do to it with older and newer systems. Not to mention I can't tweak it to specific tasks and some systems don't need a GUI since they're headless. Plus.. They have CD-ROM drives, so I couldn't use it anyway.
..and I use gentoo-sources.. Kernel 2.6.23 at the moment.. |
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xmit Apprentice
Joined: 02 Apr 2003 Posts: 158 Location: Hamburg, Germany
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 11:32 am Post subject: |
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I use vanilla - and no second hand software. |
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pappy_mcfae Watchman
Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 5999 Location: Pomona, California.
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:13 am Post subject: |
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I use the vanilla sources because I used them with Slackware without problem. I compiled a gentoo-source kernel, but I wasn't really all that impressed. Also, while I know there's a way to emerge something in a 2.6.22.x version, I much prefer the vanilla stuff because I know it will support my machine properly. The current gentoo-source is 2.6.23.x, and that kernel version doesn't properly support wireless networking via ndiswrapper/wpa_supplicant.
Put plainly, I trust the vanilla sources. I have worked with them since I started compiling my own kernels, and I know what to expect after all is said, done, and compiled.
Blessed be!
Pappy |
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kernelOfTruth Watchman
Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 6111 Location: Vienna, Austria; Germany; hello world :)
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Lucipher Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 78
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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Gentoo-sources |
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Veldrin Veteran
Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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zen-sources on my notebook
gentoo-sources on my desktop (+ 2 servers I maintain)
and in the past I've used various experimental patchsets on my notebook, among them: nitro, viper, beyond, kamikaze.
and ck on my desktop - but I had to move on, as my new hardware requires a 2.6.23 kernel - sigh |
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Killerchronic Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 91 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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Gentoo-Sources for most comps and Hardened for my servers. |
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infinity9 n00b
Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 44 Location: Atlanta, GA
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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gentoo-sources: it just works. _________________ "You cheese-eating...sideways monkeys!" -Jeremy Clarkson |
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Suicidal l33t
Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 959 Location: /dev/null
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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gentoo-sources for desktop/laptop
hardened-ssources for servers
I have tried quite a few other kernels including love-sources, ck-sources & mm-sources and I really don't see much speed improvement versus stability.
Hardened sources for servers is excellent, stable and not updated too often.
I run arch stable on all kernels. |
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ryker Guru
Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 412 Location: Portage, IN
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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I use gentoo-sources on all of my machines. I've tried most of the other kernels just to give them a try. Some seem faster; however, I always end up having stability issues, so I switch back to gentoo-sources.
Gentoo-sources *just works*, so I really don't have much of a need for anything else. The main reasons I try other kernels also is for hibernate support, but I can never get it quite working right. Always end up having problems because of the nvidia binary. _________________ Athlon 64 3200+, 80G WD sata hd + 200G IDE, 1G Geil DDR400, MSI K8T Neo
IntelCore2Duo 2.0Ghz MSI laptop,100G SATA hd, 2G RAM |
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unK l33t
Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 769
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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gentoo-sources. What is surprising, I find it more responsible and faster than other patchsets, including zen/kamikaze-sources. Maybe it is just that I can't configure it properly, but I tried a few configurations and the responsiveness was still not good, especially while compiling stuff (though niceness of portage is 19). |
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luqas Guru
Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 588 Location: /US/Texas/Beaumont
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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gentoo-sources... Just need the basics. |
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Rad Guru
Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 401 Location: Bern, Switzerland
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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zen-sources. So far all the non-vanilla kernel patches I've needed or wanted were in there, so I stayed with this patchset. |
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chris.c.hogan Apprentice
Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 189
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:11 am Post subject: |
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Depends on the system. I'm using gentoo-sources for the desktops, suspend2 (tuxonice now I guess) for laptops, and hardened for the firewall. I used hardened on the desktops for a while. However, too many things broke. I use gentoo-sources for the servers as well. I use distcc quite a bit and I figure it's best to keep a consistent tool-chain.
I hadn't heard of zen-sources. I don't see it in portage. Is there a site that tells about it? |
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FastTurtle Guru
Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 479 Location: Flakey Shake & Bake Caliornia, USA
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 1:14 am Post subject: |
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Currently using Gentoo-sources on my desktop though I prefer the vanilla-sources even though unsupported by Gentoo though 2.6.23 vanilla was borked (missing to many settings and unusable)
As soon as I start installing Gentoo onto my laptop, it'll run the gentoo-sources as I'll be installing an Intel Wi-Fi card that has Open Source Drivers that work nicely. _________________ AsRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4
128GB 3200 Mhz memory
4x 4TB Sata - 2x 2TB Sata SSD - 4x 450GB SaS - 3x 900GB SaS - 72GB SaS for Boot
LSI 9211-8i in HBA mode for all of the SaS drives
Radeon 6800 (Non XT) for GPU |
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