Re: An old box running Debian 8
On Fri 13 Nov 2020 at 16:52:41 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 13 nov 20, 14:06:52, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> > On 11/13/20 12:12 AM, Linux-Fan wrote:
> > > Miroslav Skoric writes:
> > > > On 11/11/20 7:09 PM, Linux-Fan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Pentium II is old indeed. Whenever using old processors, it is
> > > > > important to
> > > > > test if the new kernel will still support them.
> > > >
> > > > So maybe I shall try some newer kernel only?
> > >
> > > If you have an easy means to do that: Yes, I would highly recommend doing
> > > that.
> >
> > I'll consider that kind of test (if possible at all). Need to check what
> > (newer) kernels are available in Debian 8 repository. Cannot remember now
> > what (if any) kernel change occurred when I upgraded 7 to 8.
>
> Just for testing purposes you could try a jessie-backports kernel
> downloaded from snapshots or even the kernel from Debian 9 (stretch).
>
> Using a kernel from a newer release is generally less dangerous that
> many other packages. Worst case one can just reboot to the previous
> kernel.
>
> Beware that LTS support for jessie ended in June 2020.
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/
>
> That system should be upgraded to some release with security support as
> soon as possible, especially since it's dealing with e-mail as far as I
> understand from your other messages.
I would have thought that Debian has made kernel testing just about as
easy as they can since:
jessie installs with 3.16 but 4.9 is also available,
stretch installs with 4.9 but 4.19 is also available,
buster installs with 4.19
so there's full overlap. (I've not looked at backports.)
Cheers,
David.
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