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

[Jonathan Hudson]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 15:34:19 -0400, Tom H wrote:

>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.)
>

Much easier is to use the ppa for the maverick kernel build for lucid,
works a treat on my netbook, in particular replacing the
dysfunctional staging rt2860 wifi driver with the much more reliable and
functional rt2800pci driver.

ppa:kernel-ppa/ppa

and removal is just a ppa-purge away, no pinning or other hackery.

-jh