Kernel appreciation thread

>Porteus
>4.9
>>>/Reddit/

4.10.11 is out. Time to upgrade.

https://www.kernel.org/

>>59965530
How can you appreciate your kernel with that bloated behemoth GUI in the way?

Is it true it takes a few hours to compile the kernel?

>>59967582
No

>>59967582
if you have a slow cpu and compile all/most drivers, maybe

>>59965530
should hope 4.9 is stable, considering it's been out ~5 months and is a longterm release

>>59967582
Ryzen 1700x here. Benchmark runs with kernel 4.9 at defconfig takes 66s to compile and the latest 4.10 with only the options that I need ~45s.

>>59965530
>3 weeks is super stable

anyone here do localmodconfig?

is there a convinient way to add additional modules if needed? i stopped doing this pretty quickly as i'd run into new hardware and compiling a new kernel and booting into it just to add a couple modules just isn't worth it

>>59965530

I don't know why you haven't had this stability before. Linux has been a stable kernel for over a decade.

>>59965530
4.9's btrfs fucked up my storage, be careful.

>install 4.8 generic on xubuntu
>every single driver fails to load.
Is this a kernel issue or a distro issue ?

>>59968327

OP here. You're right, I have home servers running on older kernels which are rock stable.

I think I'm just impressed with the ability to run it this long directly off the ram. Never done for that long with previous versions of Slax/Porteus which came with older(probably non-LTS) kernels.

>>59967743
That's actually really fast.

4.9.9 is comfy