Regarding Fedora18

[Tim]

On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 08:28 +0530, Prashant Upadhyaya wrote:
> I downloaded Fedora18 earlier and the uname shows the following --
>  
> [root at localhost ~]# uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 11
> 18:01:27 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

You have 3.6.10-4 from 11-Dec-2012 (old), the original kernel, I
believe.
> 
> One of my customers downloaded Fedora18 recently and his uname -a
> showed the following --
>  
> Linux localhost.localdomain 3.11.10-100.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 2
> 20:28:38 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

They have 3.11.10-100 from 2-Dec-2013 (newer), so they've updated, in
the meantime.

You want them to downgrade to an older kernel?  That's *usually* a bad
idea, unless you're trying to diagnose a fault with their current kernel
by trying an older one.

Depending on how many updates they've done, they may still have the
older kernel installed.  All they'd have to do is boot using the older
one.  Read the boot menu as you boot up, and choose a different kernel.

-- 
tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp

Linux 3.14.4-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 13 14:15:15 UTC 2014 i686

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