About new Kernel

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Hi.

I’m installing kicksecure in a new laptop. The network wasn’t working and I’ve tried installing drivers but no luck. The only thing that has worked is installing a different version of the kernel and now the wifi is working fine.

For the installation of the new kernel I’ve followed this:
kicksecure(.)com/wiki/Kernel#Package_Installation

Now this command uname -r give me this: 6.12.38+deb12-amd64

The questions:
Is this system secure or is more vulnerable?
When kicksecure will use this kernel in the stable repository?
Should I now remove this file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list ?
I think not, but I guess that I should remove it only when the kernel I need is in the stable repository…

Thanks

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It depends on how promptly the Debian kernel backporters update the kernel. The backported kernel doesn’t get official security support from Debian to my awareness like the stable kernel does, but people use backports kernels to I assume they’re maintained.

It probably won’t. We’re using kernels directly from Debian’s repository, and Debian won’t be upgrading past Linux 6.1 in Bookworm (instead, they will backporting bug and security fixes to the older kernel as appropriate). However, a significantly newer kernel will be present by default in Kicksecure 18, which will be based on Debian Trixie.

No, you need that to get kernel updates for the backported kernel.