Can someone explain this to me?
[SOLVED] kernel update necessary?
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[SOLVED] kernel update necessary?
I just updated the kernal yesterday to the one in the following pic:
and now the update manager is telling me to update to:
So what I do? 11 is higher than 4 but I believe programmers know what they are doing, for the most part.
Can someone explain this to me?
Can someone explain this to me?
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sudo apt-get purge win10 && sudo apt-get install Happiness
Re: [] kernal update necessary?
When you update a kernel.
The older one is still installed, just not "Active"
If you go to View on the Update Manager you will find "Linux Kernels", here you can see all installed Kernels.
You will find 5.4 as well as the 5.11 one.
It is a good idea to keep the older kernel on the system for fallback reasons.
You can update the 5.4 kernel if you want.
The older one is still installed, just not "Active"
If you go to View on the Update Manager you will find "Linux Kernels", here you can see all installed Kernels.
You will find 5.4 as well as the 5.11 one.
It is a good idea to keep the older kernel on the system for fallback reasons.
You can update the 5.4 kernel if you want.
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Re: [] kernal update necessary?
Ah ok, that explains it thank you 
sudo apt-get purge win10 && sudo apt-get install Happiness
Re: [SOLVED] kernal update necessary?
Just to add,
I'm guessing that update has been available to you for some time ? Anyway,
Linux Kernel 5.4 is a LTS kernel (long term support) supported till 2025.
Kernel 5.11 is not LTS,
EDIT, my bad 5.11 is not end of life, even though there are many sources on web that say it is...confusing.
see, https://<blocked blogspam>/linux-kernel-5-11 ... linux-5-12
another source, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_ker ... on_history
I'm guessing that update has been available to you for some time ? Anyway,
Linux Kernel 5.4 is a LTS kernel (long term support) supported till 2025.
Kernel 5.11 is not LTS,
EDIT, my bad 5.11 is not end of life, even though there are many sources on web that say it is...confusing.
see, https://<blocked blogspam>/linux-kernel-5-11 ... linux-5-12
another source, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_ker ... on_history
Last edited by rickNS on Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:20 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: [] kernal update necessary?
Quoted you just so you'd get the message sooner.
Last edited by rickNS on Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:14 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: [SOLVED] kernal update necessary?
Note; Ubuntu kernel series 5.11 has not reached EOL; that series will be supported until February 2022. The above "9to5linux" link speaks of upstream, kernel.org kernels and there's no or at best an almost accidental relation between "Upstream-LTS" and "Ubuntu-LTS".
Re: [SOLVED] kernal update necessary?
Oops, did not know all that, will edit my above post.rene wrote: ⤴Tue Oct 19, 2021 9:21 am Note; Ubuntu kernel series 5.11 has not reached EOL; that series will be supported until February 2022. The above "9to5linux" link speaks of upstream, kernel.org kernels and there's no or at best an almost accidental relation between "Upstream-LTS" and "Ubuntu-LTS".
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Re: [SOLVED] kernal update necessary?
FWIW I agree it sucks --- but Ubuntu has a very fixed 6-month release schedule, 2-year LTS schedule, which at best by accident synchronizes with any upstream kernel.org schedule. Ubuntu has the resources to itself support a kernel series and e.g. backport fixes from later upstream kernel series so they basically "do their own thing" --- and to be honest, historically kernel.org "LTS" kernels weren't a thing at all. Frankly I believe that to this day they serve mostly to confuse the issue...