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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "Kernel surfers" Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 11:39:31 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: <utmf1j$3jski$1@dont-email.me> References: <ut8m9h$44c$1@dont-email.me> <65fdfc12$0$7522$426a34cc@news.free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 11:39:31 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="47568ea6215ed5623f944411e105f49e"; logging-data="3797650"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+tOLbBgWWM/YM7TV3kKYUE" User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; 285e616 gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan.git; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BjtvawhHaAiDJJ/vitewULUMMJk= X-Face: \}2`P"_@pS86<'EM:'b.Ml}8IuMK"pV"?FReF$'c.S%u9<Q#U*4QO)$l81M`{Q/n XL'`91kd%N::LG:=*\35JS0prp\VJN^<s"b#bff@fA7]5lJA.jn,x_d%Md$,{.EZ Bytes: 2177 On 22 Mar 2024 21:45:54 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote in <65fdfc12$0$7522$426a34cc@news.free.fr>: > Le 18-03-2024, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> a écrit : >> Do you track the current kernel on https://kernel.org ? > > No. > >> Note that I download and build the kernel on my own, > > What for? I haven't done it in decades. It was mandatory 30 years ago, > but not anymore. > > I update it something like once a week and it's done effortlessly. I can > imagine some reasons to do it, but not for a normal usage of a computer. Because I'm curious. I don't _have_ to do it, I'm just interested in systems. Being mostly retired, I can go back to looking at the things that used to interest me. I'm not a typical user. So, I'm sitting at Linux 6.8.0 for now, as the new feature for 6.8.1 doesn't apply to me -- and the NVidia driver it seems to require isn't as performant as my current driver.[*] (I need the performance for both _Starfield_ and _Elite Dangerous Odyssey_.) [*] YMMV -- -v