lwn.net is the best resource if you can't read lkml, which is usually very technical.
A more stable (i.e. older) kernel may or may not help with any crashes. If there is a clear kernel panic (it switches to a black screen with white text and tells you it's a kernel panic), it might. A more frequent cause of crashing is graphics drivers: nouveau, the free NVIDIA driver, is notoriously buggy. These will manifest by a sudden and complete "freeze", where the last frame is displayed on screen but the system is otherwise unresponsive.
If you have an NVIDIA card, switching to NVIDIA's proprietary driver will probably be much more stable, at the cost of software freedom.
Actually, I'm using AMD's open source drivers. So far I haven't had any crashes, so I think switching kernels solved my problem. Thanks for the resource!
If you just want to know what the latest stable, mainline, etc. kernels are, rather than news articles, the frontpage of https://www.kernel.org/ has everything. Your distribution might also maintain multiple versions of the kernel.
lwn.net is the best resource if you can't read lkml, which is usually very technical.
A more stable (i.e. older) kernel may or may not help with any crashes. If there is a clear kernel panic (it switches to a black screen with white text and tells you it's a kernel panic), it might. A more frequent cause of crashing is graphics drivers: nouveau, the free NVIDIA driver, is notoriously buggy. These will manifest by a sudden and complete "freeze", where the last frame is displayed on screen but the system is otherwise unresponsive.
If you have an NVIDIA card, switching to NVIDIA's proprietary driver will probably be much more stable, at the cost of software freedom.
Actually, I'm using AMD's open source drivers. So far I haven't had any crashes, so I think switching kernels solved my problem. Thanks for the resource!
If you just want to know what the latest stable, mainline, etc. kernels are, rather than news articles, the frontpage of https://www.kernel.org/ has everything. Your distribution might also maintain multiple versions of the kernel.