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Advantages of using the bleeding edge Linux kernel

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I have AMD Athlon 3500+ (x86_64) CPU and I am okay with the Ubuntu package maintainer's kernel version (as of now it is 2.6.35-24-generic). What will I gain if I update to latest stable kernel (2.6.36.2)? A fraction of performance?

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Only correct answer to this question is to actually go to http://kernel.org/ and check changelog for each stable version. In some versions, there could be performance improvements, in other bugfixes or there could be new device drivers added. For ex…

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