A Linux for the totally maintenance free

Tue Oct 28 17:44:53 UTC 2014

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:12:19AM -0700, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
> CentOS 7 uses a 3.10 kernel, and my 1.5-year-old AMD laptop is not
> terribly happy with it, especially compared with 3.16 in Fedora. If
> I'm going to muck around and always follow the latest kernel, I might
> as well stick with distros that offer 3.16+ out of the box.

New kernel features and driver updates are backported in each minor
release. That the kernel identifies itself as 3.10 is essentially just
to mark where Red Hat forked it. Don't be surprised if 7.1 or 7.2 works
much better on your hardware.

		Marcus