[manjaro-dev] Fwd: New Personal Message: Kernels

[Rob McCathie]

Does 3.10 work for them? Since is still has over a year of support life left...

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org> wrote:
> I just got an PM by CyberWolf2k14 regarding on kernels. linux311 will have
> at least one more kernel-point-release as this one is already in cue. What
> ever happend with kernels higher than 3.12.20 I don't know. This message is
> not so helpful and we need more details on it. However, it seems my work
> with multible kernels helps users to run even Manjaro.
>
> IMPORTANT: Remember, this is just a notification. Please do not reply to
> this email.
>
> The message they sent you was:
>
> I am truly saddened that the 3.11.x line is going away.
> As I just recently found Manjaro and installed the Xfce edition, and when
> installed it had the 3.12.20 kernel which worked on my machine, but the
> update pack 6 update killed it when the kernel went to 3.12.26. I know, such
> a small change in version and boom.
> So I ended up having no choice but to go back to 3.11.10, which works like a
> champ, in fact on my machine boot up was about 2X faster.
>
> IF interested, you can find out some of my trials and tribulations with the
> kernel here:
> https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=15890.0
>
> Hopefully I can somehow keep using this kernel as it is the ONLY way to keep
> using Manjaro for me. I have tried several distros recently (before Manjaro)
> and EVERY one with a kernel newer than say 3.12.20 will NOT run.EVER.
>
> Thanks.
>
> P.S. Now I have Manjaro running fairly well, I must say...I LIKE.
>
>
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