[10.04]-Safe to upgrade kernel Lucid to Maverick?

[Tom H]

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Jesse Palser <SLNTHERO at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is it safe now to upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 32bit kernel
>> from Lucid to Maverick?
>
> No! Maverick stable has not been released yet.

You are confusing Maverick as a distribution with its kernel. The
Maverick kernel is considered stable by kernel.org. I have a colleague
who is using it with Lucid (I have forgotten why but there is a good
technical reason for this and he didn't have the time or will to
compile his own 2.6.35) and his laptop is running just fine.

Two options (assuming that you don't want to compile your own kernel).

1. Mess around with apt-pinning to direct apt to use Maverick's
linux-image-xxx and linux-headers-xxx and Lucid's everything else.

2. Download Maverick's linux-image-xxx and linux-headers-xxx debs and
install them with dpkg. (You can probably set up apt not to upgrade
the Lucid kernel with apt pinning - and you wouldn't have to add the
Maverick repos to sources.list.)