Currently using Stable on my main machine and very happy with it. Wanted to experiment with Testing on one of my laptops (T430 Thinkpad) to understand how this would affect my preferred window manager installation (dwm, slstatus, st) and my preferred list of applications. Quite understand Testing (Trixie) is an ongoing development process and unfinished until final release, which is why it is on a non-critical machine.
Having performed a minimal installation, installed sudo, added myself to the sudo group and edited the visudo file as root all was good. Next edited the /etc/apt/sources.list to change bookworm entries to trixie completely following the Debian wiki instructions, did sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade, again all good. Large number of packages held back (ok been there before, understand why and no problem with it).
Surprised to find after rebooting that Trixie is still apparently using 6.1.30 kernel same as Stable whereas I “thought” it would probably be using 6.6 LTS kernel or similar (?).
Is this normal, or should I have also performed a sudo apt full-system-upgrade, or is this potentially dangerous and not recommended? Please advise me.
Having performed a minimal installation, installed sudo, added myself to the sudo group and edited the visudo file as root all was good. Next edited the /etc/apt/sources.list to change bookworm entries to trixie completely following the Debian wiki instructions, did sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade, again all good. Large number of packages held back (ok been there before, understand why and no problem with it).
Surprised to find after rebooting that Trixie is still apparently using 6.1.30 kernel same as Stable whereas I “thought” it would probably be using 6.6 LTS kernel or similar (?).
Is this normal, or should I have also performed a sudo apt full-system-upgrade, or is this potentially dangerous and not recommended? Please advise me.
Statistics: Posted by daver1953 — 2025-01-28 17:40 — Replies 5 — Views 137