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

[Tom H]

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Jonathan Hudson <jh+ubuntu at daria.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

True. I always forget about ppas...