(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

...most of us are already aware of this, but in case the rare puppiest out there isn't---here's a funny article and quoting the first few lines:



Linux kernel 3.14 declared end-of-life. Colonel Kitten informs platoon
Earplugs out, this could get shouty[[/b]

RODENTS! But enough about the canteen. PAY ATTENTION. THIS IS YOUR COLONEL! I have an important missive about an enemy among us.

As you know, we take our mission to look after the Linux kernel very seriously in this platoon and I am sad to inform you that one of our top kernel agents has been given a burn notice...........................................


http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... ms-platoon

Yup, I compiled 3.14.79 yesterday and will probably keep using this one until my laptop goes EOL. Any critical patches can be backported by hand I guess.

This is bad news

Next up is 3.4(112) which is due 9/2016.
The 3.4.x kernel is in Slacko5.7 puppies (3.4.82).

3.10.x kernels are safe until 10/2017.

3.16 looks good until April 2020, but doesn't seem to get patched as often https://www.kernel.org/releases.html

3.16.37 is latest massive update.

To go forward with the eee-spins, I might have to go to 6.3 w/Kdelta -->3.16.(37)

Is it time to upgrade then?
i have that one in X-thar

I ran Peppermint and some other dists, but they had the lates 4.xx
Might not have to go all the way up there, but some fresher

The suggestion of 3.16.x is for length of suppoort. I notice that the 4-series are all short.

MHO/ Its nice, and expected to try the newest kernels in puppy, as some other basic security and ops get updated. But frankly, there seems to be a lot of older computers that are having difficulty migrating (some as recent as 2013). It appears IMHO that some things have been deprecated in favor of newer. /MHO

Ok, well it seems to have worked during other installs on this pc, old Lenovo thinkpad (refurb)
Just need to find a guide howto =)

If you want to still support older computers, Puppy needs to watch how new a kernel it uses.

The biggest reason to use newer kernel is to get support for newest hardware.

I am not going to look for it, but I have seen statements that the Linux kernel is dropping very older hardware support as the kernel progresses.

Even Puppy stopped supporting K-6 or P2 processors.

Oh, well i found a nice solution that gave me a simple .pet install.
I now run 4.4.6

LTS so will be a slow one, no need to upgrade to often.
Works awesome, i thiunk it was a faster upstart aswell, might be a placebo effect

If it's a about a Old Computer when Let's look at this -> http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 320#931320 (My table of Kernels'),Kernel 3.2 it's a still supported. (EOL of a Kernel it's a May 2018')

Does it mean EOL of tahrpup!! as its kernel is 3.14.
@sailor is there any pup that build on 3.16.
@friTTe what solution do you got? can you share with us.