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Re: Choosing a kernel, and security issues



On 09/12/16 02:27, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-12-08 at 15:54 +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
>> I recently learned on debian-user that the 4.7 backport kernels have
>> problems and shouldn't be used, and that I should stick with 4.6 instead
>> (despite that no longer being available in the archive).
> 
> You should upgrade unless you know the new version won't work for you.

Thanks, will do.

>>- where do I get the source for my running kernel?
> 
> The debian/bin/genorig.py will generate it from the upstream linux git
> repository.  Alternately <http://snapshot.debian.org> has all the old
> uploaded versions.

Thanks. I didn't think of snapshot for backports.

Thanks,
Richard



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