Greg Kroah-Hartman recently announced the release of Linux Kernel 4.0.5, which has been tagged the most advanced and stable kernel version currently available. Linux kernel 4.0.5 brings architecture updates for ARM, x86, MIPS, PowerPC, s390, ARM64, and PA-RISC, filesystem specific optimizations for Btrfs, EXT4, XFS, OverlayFS, jbd2, Optimized MPEG Filesystem (OMFS), and NFS and updated drivers, among others.
Linux Kernel 4.0.5 changelog
Install Kernel 4.0.5 on Ubuntu OS
32bit OS
cd /tmp wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.5-wily/linux-headers-4.0.5-040005_4.0.5-040005.201506061639_all.deb wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.5-wily/linux-headers-4.0.5-040005-generic_4.0.5-040005.201506061639_i386.deb wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.5-wily/linux-image-4.0.5-040005-generic_4.0.5-040005.201506061639_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.0*.deb linux-image-4.0*.deb sudo reboot
64bit OS
cd /tmp wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.5-wily/linux-headers-4.0.5-040005_4.0.5-040005.201506061639_all.deb wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.5-wily/linux-headers-4.0.5-040005-generic_4.0.5-040005.201506061639_amd64.deb wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.5-wily/linux-image-4.0.5-040005-generic_4.0.5-040005.201506061639_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.0*.deb linux-image-4.0*.deb sudo reboot
Remove Linux Kernel 4.0.5
sudo apt-get remove linux-header-4.0* linux-image-4.0*comments powered by Disqus