Different kernels

[Petter Adsen]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:51:08 -0800
MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>
> wrote:
> > MR ZenWiz wrote:  
> >> More importantly, how do I upgrade my fully up-to-date older 14.04
> >> installations to get this kernel and its associated components?
> >> They're all showing 14.04.4, but the kernel is 3.13.  
> >
> > Well, the original LTS release included the linux-image packages
> > with the 3.13 kernel. If you need a HWE kernel, you should install
> > one of the packages linux-image-generic-lts-wily,
> > linux-image-generic-lts-vivid or linux-image-generic-lts-utopic
> > instead of linux-image-generic. 
> Excellent, thanks.  (I probably should have known that....)

If you want to know more about it, there is a page here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

Note that there are also updates for the X stack available.

Petter

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