I just upgraded xubuntu 12.04 LTS on my laptop to linux kernel 3.11 (ubuntu 13.10 saucy kernel). Everything seems to be a bit faster, due to some new features in Linux kernel 3.11.
What new/hot in linux kernel 3.11 from Linus Torvalds?
- Zswap was merged for compressed swap caching
- AMD Radeon DPM Support
- Low Latency Network Polling
- KVM/ Xen support for 64-bit ARM
- F2FS file-system updates
- EXT4 file-system updates
For x32 system
$ su - # cd /root/3.11kernel # wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11-saucy/linux-headers-3.11.0-031100-generic_3.11.0-031100.201309021735_i386.deb # wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11-saucy/linux-headers-3.11.0-031100_3.11.0-031100.201309021735_all.deb # wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11-saucy/linux-image-3.11.0-031100-generic_3.11.0-031100.201309021735_i386.deb
For x64 system
$ su - # cd /root/3.11kernel # wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11-saucy/linux-headers-3.11.0-031100-generic_3.11.0-031100.201309021735_amd64.deb # wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11-saucy/linux-headers-3.11.0-031100_3.11.0-031100.201309021735_all.deb # wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11-saucy/linux-image-3.11.0-031100-generic_3.11.0-031100.201309021735_amd64.deb
For both 32-bit & 64-bit, run below command to install them:
# dpkg -i *.deb # update-grub # reboot
Check your system after reboot if you have linux kernel 3.11
$ su - # uname -r
or
# cat /proc/version
You should see something like this
# uname -r 3.11.0-031100-generic
# cat /proc/version Linux version 3.11.0-031100-generic (apw@gomeisa) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #201309021735 SMP Mon Sep 2 21:36:21 UTC 2013
To download newest kernel for ubuntu, or linux mint. Please visit
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/