Re: [OT] kernel 3.14-rc2 for Testing

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:29:46 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 10:05 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > * On 2014 11 Feb 07:20 -0600, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > > Any reason why people should *not* distrust this kernel?
> > > 
> > > I was thinking the same thing. Why the rush to upgrade kernels anyway?
> > 
> > Indeed.  Those needing cutting edge features should only get the source
> > from a known source such as kernel.org
> 
> +1
> 
> > and know how to build a custom kernel. 
> 
> That's easy to learn, even for newbies and compiling likely takes less

But note that it's very easy to run into serious problems by disabling
something necessary to boot and run properly.

> than 2 hours on a modern machine.

My T61 (Core 2 Duo @ 2GGz) builds my custom kernels in something like
ten minutes.

Celejar