Ubuntu 23.04 Preparing To Land Its Linux 6.2 Based Kernel

[Phil995511]

I completely agree with your conclusions regarding this article.

If Debian people could also think of users and use kernel 6.2 for Debian 12, we would be in a wonderful world !!!

[mrg666]

Distributions, including Ubuntu, do not aim to optimize their kernel configurations to maximize the compatibility. When I custom build with unnecessary options removed, I get the following and this kernel still runs on most AMD and Intel systems in the last 10 years.

-rw------- 1 root root 12781128 Feb 24 08:27 vmlinuz-6.1.0-16-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7897952 Mar 17 11:55 vmlinuz-6.2.7-mirage

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 126940396 Mar 17 11:54 initrd.img-6.1.0-16-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  61561971 Mar 18 05:17 initrd.img-6.2.7-mirage

​-rw-r--r--  1 root root    273903 Feb 24 08:24 config-6.1.0-16-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    186187 Mar 17 11:55 config-6.2.7-mirage