Ubuntu's Great Mainline Kernel PPA Hasn't Been Working Since Mid-September

[cutterjohn]

That is because they don't have a bunch of custom patchsets like Ubuntu does. If one of their patches fails to apply correctly then their builds likely end up breaking until the offender is rebased properly.

Also they're not RHEL or SLES... Canonical is different for now where the systems are the same for the service contract supportable and what one would generally download and use...

With RHEL and SLES you'd probably PREFER the Fedora and OpenSUSE versions for the same reason that you might want a PPA, but looking at what PPAs are, it's clear that there are ZERO guarantees about ANYTHING...

Perhaps if you requested a service contract for up-to-date mainline kernels and mesa Canonical MIGHT be able to help you out, otherwise I'd say have at building your own...

[NotMine999]

So a repository of kernels is broken. So what? Build your own mainline kernel.

Or do OSStards only know how to fellate and circlejerk themselves and are too mentally challenged to build a line of code?

I tend to agree. Massive case of missing user education

Learning how to compile your own kernels is not just for us neckbeards anymore

[Keith Myers]

I tried and failed to build the 6.11.5 kernel from kernel.org yesterday. Fought it for 4 hours or so. Could not get past failure to get my installed Nvidia drivers to install into the kernel even though dkms was installed for the kernel. So I have been lamenting the loss of the Mainline PPA again since the last 6.11.0 kernel was available there. I just want the one line fix for the intel-rapl-common module so that Zen 5 cpus can have power monitoring working again.

[Dukenukemx]

As a Linux Mint user, I use Xanmod. I haven't used the mainline kernel in years. I've been messing with CachyOS and I'm ready to switch over to that because they already offer optimized kernels and a lot more. Ubuntu and distros based on it have been getting messy with each new LTS anyway. I see no reason to avoid updating the kernel other than to keep tech support in forums down to a minimum.

[Espionage724]

I use Liquorix kernel on Ubuntu https://liquorix.net/

Used it for a few years and up to 24.04.1 no problem. I tried XanMod a few times but didn't really notice a benefit over Liquorix, and generally-speaking I mainly use Liquorix because it sounds good and is occasionally a newer version than Ubuntu's stock (the stock kernel performs fine for me)

I think I tried the mainline kernel PPA a few times years ago prior to Liquorix; was cool at the time, but for general use or even gaming I don't have a real reason to want to use the mainline kernel PPA.

[estan]

Did you search for an open bug report, or file one, before using your own news site as a bug tracker?

[sfjuocekr]

Recently switched away from Ubuntu after eight straight years, so I wasn't there to report it!

[timrichardson]

That is because they don't have a bunch of custom patchsets like Ubuntu does. If one of their patches fails to apply correctly then their builds likely end up breaking until the offender is rebased properly.

mainline is supposed to be builds of vanilla Linus linux. The Ubuntu "how to report a bug in the kernel" invites users to test a mainline build to eliminate the chance that an Ubuntu change is causing their problem.

The usual way of building .deb from the linux .deb make target is not working for me at the moment. EDIT: that was user error, it's fine

[Phil995511]

They are really not serious at Ubuntu ;-(

[mos87]

wait... IMAGINE if we had a single opensource repo providing all the DISTROS with fresh kernel builds...

then we won't need to have it being done for each and every one by different people!

NAH that's too fascist.