{"id":653,"date":"2013-03-01T23:18:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T23:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2013-03-01T23:18:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T23:18:37","slug":"kernel-3-8-1-and-3-7-10-is-eol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Kernel 3.8.1 &#8211; and 3.7.10 is EOL.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently updated my main system to 3.8.1, without any fuss..\u00a0\u00a0 As before, the (patched) VMware 9.01 works fine, and the latest NVIDIA &#8216;stable&#8217; driver 310.32 compiles OK, too..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Don&#8217;t forget to include the obligatory softlink, before compiling VMware!<br \/>\n<em><strong>ln -s \/usr\/src\/linux-3.8.1\/include\/generated\/uapi\/linux\/version.h \/usr\/src\/linux-3.8.1\/include\/linux\/version.h<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is a later version of the 3.7 branch available &#8211; 3.7.10, but this is now considered EOL (<strong>E<\/strong>nd <strong>O<\/strong>f <strong>L<\/strong>ife).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Updating to 3.8.1 is recommended, if possible &#8211; and especially if you were running 3.8.0&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I understand that the 3.8 branch will eventually be EOL&#8217;ed, too, and is not seen as a candidate for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>long-term<\/em><\/span> support..<\/p>\n<p>More details on all the changes from 3.8.0:<br \/>\n<a title=\"https:\/\/www.kernel.org\/pub\/linux\/kernel\/v3.x\/ChangeLog-3.8.1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kernel.org\/pub\/linux\/kernel\/v3.x\/ChangeLog-3.8.1\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.kernel.org\/pub\/linux\/kernel\/v3.x\/ChangeLog-3.8.1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>$ <em>uname -a<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Linux rglinux 3.8.1 #1 SMP Thu Feb 28 19:40:48 GMT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The other exciting news is that (finally!) the <strong>kernel.org<\/strong> site has been redesigned, and looks <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">much<\/span> better:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_654\" style=\"width: 813px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/wp_rglinuxtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/new_kernel_org_site.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"size-full wp-image-654\" alt=\"The redesigned Kernel.Org site..\" src=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/wp_rglinuxtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/new_kernel_org_site.png\" width=\"803\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/wp_rglinuxtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/new_kernel_org_site.png 803w, https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/wp_rglinuxtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/new_kernel_org_site-300x295.png 300w, https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/wp_rglinuxtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/new_kernel_org_site-304x300.png 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The redesigned Kernel.Org site..<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 March 1st, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently updated my main system to 3.8.1, without any fuss..\u00a0\u00a0 As before, the (patched) VMware 9.01 works fine, and the latest NVIDIA &#8216;stable&#8217; driver 310.32 compiles OK, too..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Don&#8217;t forget to include the obligatory softlink, before compiling VMware! ln -s \/usr\/src\/linux-3.8.1\/include\/generated\/uapi\/linux\/version.h \/usr\/src\/linux-3.8.1\/include\/linux\/version.h There is a later version of the 3.7 branch available &#8211; 3.7.10, but this is <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=653\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,14,15,18,25],"tags":[452,449,453,277,297,1175,379,451],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-fedora","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-vmware","tag-310-32","tag-kernel-3-8-1","tag-kernel-org-redesign","tag-nvidia-2","tag-patched","tag-success","tag-update","tag-vmware-9-01"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}