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| demahum | I am looking forward to understand Ubuntu Kernel updates. For the beginning, if I do apt update followed by apt upgrade, and if the kernel update is available, I will get it that way, correct? | 09:44 |
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| apw | apt update then apt upgrade i believe yes will get you any availble kernel updates | 09:54 |
| apw | assuming you have the appropriate meta package installed (which you should by default) | 09:54 |
| apw | demahum, ^ | 09:54 |
| demahum | apw: awesome | 09:55 |
| demahum | now.. | 09:55 |
| demahum | there is this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Support | 09:56 |
| demahum | the kernel release schedule | 09:56 |
| apw | yes | 09:56 |
| demahum | and in my case, I have 16.04.3 LTS | 09:56 |
| demahum | and my current kernel is 4.4.0-112 | 09:56 |
| demahum | I am talking desktop, but it's the same on my server | 09:57 |
| apw | you installed from 16.04.3 media ? | 09:57 |
| demahum | apw: yes yes, everything standard and default | 09:57 |
| demahum | now... | 09:57 |
| apw | servers tend to keep the GA kernel (4.4.0-* in the case of 16.04) | 09:57 |
| apw | i ask about the media you used because if you installed from 16.04 or 16.04.1 media and upgraded | 09:58 |
| apw | you would have 16.04.3 in the sense that is what lsb_release thingy would say | 09:58 |
| apw | but you would have a differnt kernel selected than if you used 16.04.3 media | 09:58 |
| apw | for the install | 09:58 |
| demahum | apw: what can happen (aside from manual kernel installation) that my 16.04. jumps from 4.4.0-* to e.g. 4.12.*? | 09:58 |
| apw | if you had installed from 16.04.2 or later you would have had the linux-hwe kernel selected | 09:59 |
| apw | and that kernel jumps from 4.8 -> 4.10 -> 4.13 as it is following the hardware-enablement branch | 09:59 |
| demahum | apw: Awesome! | 10:00 |
| demahum | apw: you gave me enough information so I can read on now. Big thanks! | 10:00 |
| apw | so i assume if your desktop is following 4.4 it was installed from older media | 10:00 |
| demahum | apw: after I read these... if something is unclear, I'll come back | 10:01 |
| apw | and has 'linux-generic' meta package installed, which keeps your GA kernel up to date | 10:01 |
| demahum | apw: yeah, probably that's the case | 10:01 |
| apw | a machine which has the later stuff on it would have linux-generic-hwe-16.04 installed which keeps the linux-hwe kernel up to date | 10:01 |
| demahum | apw: perfect, thanks! | 10:01 |
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