On 02/05/12 03:33 PM, Joey L wrote:
I thoiught it would be easy to google - how i can upgrade to the
latest kernel on debian squeeze.
but apparently it is not as easy as i thought.
does anyone have a quick tutorial on how to do this ?
thanks
mjh
To do an upgrade:
- apt-get update
- apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade (your choice - I prefer the
latter)
To upgrade to the latest kernel on kernel.org:
Not recommended! The kernel interface changes all the time. Upgrading to
a later kernel than your distro was built against can cause problems. If
you need a later kernel for some reason, switch to a more up-to-date
distro. For example, switching from Squeeze to Wheezy is a simple matter
of running:
sed -i "s/stable/testing/g" /etc/apt/sources-list
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
You can also switch to Ubuntu, Linux Mint or any other distro that
upgrades on a faster release cycle. However, by doing so, you will be
losing out on Debian's amazing stability and reliability. The other
distros are quite good, so this isn't usually a big issue, especially if
you came from a Windows environment.
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