20th February 2017, 13:00
Quote:Is there anything special i need to do to "get" this... my assumption is "no, it'll simply come to me via Update Manager once ready"?
Like said in the initial post you need to install it manually if you want it.
It won't come as normal update. Its an "opt-in" update.
Quote:Even though it didn't fix the freeze pain per separate thread, i'm still happy to retain 4.9.9, so is it reasonable & safe for me to tell Tower's Update Manager to ignore this "older" kernel?You can ignore it. Though it will nag (or show the updates) everytime a new update is available and you have the default kernel installed still.