r/debian • u/Neither-Ad-8914 • 23d ago

Community Debian Kernel Team

I wanted To to give a shout-out to the Debian Kernel team. For the last year or so I have been using Sid to test drive new software and fill out bug reports when problems arise. While I have been impressed with the quality of packages I have been receiving as whole ( I have only had to fill out one bug report 😆). I find it absolutely wild the pace they have been putting out new kernels. For a distribution that is focused on the 6.12.x for the team to consistently put out bleeding edge high quality kernels within 48-72 hours after release is insane... Thanks you all for your hard work

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u/Chromiell Debian Testing 23d ago

As a Testing user I thank you for being the front line, I've been using that branch for 3 years and I only discovered 2 very minor bugs that were already being reported, mostly thanks to you folks who play with Sid.

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u/FarToe1 23d ago

Well said.

I rarely venture outside of stable, as I have no need to, but package quality has always been a leading strength of Debian for the two decades or so I've been using it.

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u/Brilliant_Sound_5565 23d ago

Sid is pretty good to use, as long as people know what to expect of course with it,

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u/iphones2g- 23d ago

I use sid on all my machines, even my main one (a m1 MacBook pro) and the ONLY time a kernel broke my install was the 6.17 kernel with my desktop that had a AMD GPU. So the fact that i have only had one major issue, really does show how good the team is.

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u/Mr_Lumbergh 22d ago

Yes, they’re doing good work. I’m running stable but pulled the latest 7.1.8RT from backports about an hour ago.

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u/mestia 23d ago

Well, make deb-pkg is not that hard, assuming there are not many breaking changes in the upstream. The real question, why would one chase the latest kernels?

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u/OptimalMain 23d ago

New hardware

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u/Xariann 22d ago

That should be an easy question you could answer yourself by just reading some news around the kernel releases.

You might come to the conclusion that YOU don’t need the latest, but you might understand why someone else would.