Dear Twitterverse, I am looking for a Linux distribution that will gracefully allow booting into 4.11, 4.14, 4.19, and 5.4+ kernels without changing userspace. Does anyone have experience how e.g. Debian or Alpine fare under those requirements? Any other recommendation?
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Replying to @halvarflake
It is an explicit goal of the kernel that you can update it all the time, without updating the rest of userspace; and I have repeatedly done that on Debian systems. I believe that a Debian Stretch VM should work fine with anything >=4.9
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Replying to @tehjh @halvarflake
In the other direction, Debian's install manuals document the minimum kernel glibc needs for each release (3.2 for Debian stable, see https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#glibc-and-linux …); the other main thing to be aware of is probably systrmd's kernel requirement, and upstream systemd currently wants 3.13
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(but I haven't tried that direction myself)
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