On Wednesday 26 April 2017 07:20:06 deloptes wrote:
> Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> > However, Ubuntu is not based on Debian stable. That does make a
> > difference. This means Debian is ill suited to older hardware (kernel
> > 3.16 for Jessie, for example).
>
> but for technically experienced user make deb-pkg on the kernel source
> gives you newer kernel (with debian stable), which is my preferred choice.

Or simply use the kernel from the backports repository.

Lisi