Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

From: Ondrej Zary
Date: Thu Feb 18 2021 - 17:50:51 EST


On Thursday 18 February 2021 21:55:34 Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > For me
> > > only way to get properly working WiFi on my laptop computer is to
> > > compile that Intel out-of-tree version. Sad, but true.
> >
> > Why use 4.19.y on a laptop in the firstplace? That feels very wrong and
> > is not the recommended thing to use the LTS kernels for.
>
> Well, that's actually what distributions are doing, for example Debian
> 10.8 is on 4.19...

There's 5.10 in buster-backports. That's probably the easiest way to get support for new HW.

> I expect -stable is what most users are running on their notebooks.
>
> Best regards,
> Pavel


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Ondrej Zary