Re: Kernel releases

2015-07-31 Thread Andrew Martin
- Original Message - > From: "Christopher Carlson" > To: "Paul Smith" > Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 1:49:37 PM > Subject: Re: Kernel releases > > Thank you for your reply, Paul. > > BTW, I&

Re: Kernel releases

2015-07-30 Thread Christopher . Carlson
: Kernel releases On 07/30/2015 11:49 AM, christopher.carl...@zodiacaerospace.com wrote: > Thank you for your reply, Paul. > > BTW, I'm running 14.04.2 LTS.x86_64. > > I also don't always restart, but I presume the only reason we got a kernel update is because of

Re: Kernel releases

2015-07-30 Thread John Johansen
On 07/30/2015 11:49 AM, christopher.carl...@zodiacaerospace.com wrote: > Thank you for your reply, Paul. > > BTW, I'm running 14.04.2 LTS.x86_64. > > I also don't always restart, but I presume the only reason we got a kernel > update is because of a bug or security, which encourages me to restar

Re: Kernel releases

2015-07-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 11:49 -0700, christopher.carl...@zodiacaerospace.com wrote: > I also don't always restart, but I presume the only reason we got a > kernel update is because of a bug or security, which encourages me to > restart. It nags at me (not the system, but my concern that there's a >

Re: Kernel releases

2015-07-30 Thread Christopher . Carlson
Thank you for your reply, Paul. BTW, I'm running 14.04.2 LTS.x86_64. I also don't always restart, but I presume the only reason we got a kernel update is because of a bug or security, which encourages me to restart. It nags at me (not the system, but my concern that there's a problem lurking).

Re: Kernel releases

2015-07-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 10:29 -0700, christopher.carl...@zodiacaerospace.com wrote: > I think having to upgrade the OS more than once a month is > ridiculous. One of the reasons I've always preferred Linux is because > I don't have updates every week, but it seems we have kernel upgrades > more ofte

Kernel releases

2015-07-30 Thread Christopher . Carlson
I'm not going to be a nuisance on this e-mail list, but I do want to comment on the number of kernel releases Ubuntu seems to be generating. It's actually worse than Microsoft, which seems to be only once a week. Considering I've had a new kernel release installed on Jun 17, Jun