Porém, me deparei com tal publicação:
I'll start with an introduction. I served as the OS architect for elementary during the Luna cycle, and I was asked by my fellow developers to describe why you should not mess with the kernel, and how to do it properly when you absolutely must.
Do not believe the media
I've been asked to write this because there's been a flurry of very dangerous "Upgrade your Luna kernel" articles recently. The methods they describe let an attacker to covertly assume complete control over your system at the time of upgrading. Those methods also leave you without security updates, not to mention a Russian Roulette in stability and performance.
If you spot an article that mentions "wget" or "mainline kernel ppa", ask the author to take down the article immediately, and tell him I said he's either incompetent or a moron and should keep his nose out of writing howto's.
(In fact, you can ask to take down any post mentioning kernel upgrades and replace with a link to this article just because you won't need any other articles on upgrading the kernel). Do not to mess with the kernel
This is probably the most critical piece of software an operating system has. Unless you really know what you're doing (as opposed to following a random online guide), do not mess with it. Seriously. You underestimate complexity of the task.
You think you're tech-savvy enough to mess with the kernel? Ha! Hell, I'm the guy who's in charge of the OS, I'm currently writing regression tests for the kernel (co-op with Ubuntu kernel team), but even I'm not qualified to mess with the kernel.Nobody is, except maybe a few high-level maintainers of it, like Linus himself. It's just not a task a single person can successfully undertake. You need a team of dedicated professionals and a lot of resources, like in Ubuntu or Red Hat.
And yeah, if you think our "3.2" kernel is old, you're wrong. While Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and elementary OS have a kernel derived from 3.2 but with a lot of elements from later kernels. The changes revolve mostly around bugfixes and hardware support.
But most importantly, our stock kernel is stable compared to later kernels. Not absolutely stable, mind you, otherwise I wouldn't be writing regression tests for it, but it does have a significant advantage. And you prefer stability over performance any day. Yes you do. Trust me, I've been through these delusions too.
Fonte: http://shnatsel.blogspot.com.es/2013/12 ... 5930742820
Agora fiquei no dilema, continuo a atualizar ou paro de atualizar o kernel? gostaria de saber a opinião de vcs dos pros e contras!
