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Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS has been officially released as an LTS(Long Term Support) release with 1 year of maintenance and 2 years of technical support. As early adopters of Linux, let's upgrade the Linux Kernel 4.4 kernel for Ubuntu.

Linux Kernel 4.4 mlock2() system call support for delayed memory locking; block-level I/O polling;LightNVM branch for low-level control of solid state storage devices; unprivileged users can load BPF programs into the kernel;

Linux Kernel 4.4 Features:

AMD Stoney APU Support

◆ Added AMD Carrizo, Tonga and Fiji graphics processor support

◆ Kernel Mode Settings Raspberry Pi KMS Driver

◆ VirGL VirtIO 3D GPU driver added to Gallium3D

◆ Many updates for network, WiFi and eBPF

◆64-bit ARM update

Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS is one-third driver updates, one-third architecture updates, and one-third misc (mainly kernel and networking). For more details on the improvements, see LKML.

Ubuntu Upgrade Linux Kernel 4.4 Kernel

The Ubuntu Kernel Team has responded quickly and released Linux Kernel 4.4 binaries for Ubuntu, which you can download manually:

Linux Kernel 4.4 DEB

After confirming the architecture of your Ubuntu system (32-bit or 46-bit), download the following files:

◆linux-headers-4.4.0-xxx_all.deb

◆linux-headers-4.4.0-xxx-generic_xxx_i386/amd64.deb

◆linux-image-4.4.0-xxx-generic_xxx_i386/amd64.deb

If you need to use "low latency" applications on a daily basis (e.g. recording audio and video), download the following package:

◆linux-headers-4.4.0_xxx_all.deb

◆linux-headers-4.4.0-xxx-lowlatency_xxx_i386/amd64.deb

◆linux-image-4.4.0-xxx-lowlatency_xxx_i386/amd64.deb

64-bit system

cd /tmp/ wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4-wily/linux-headers-4.4.0-040400_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_all.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4-wily/linux-headers-4.4.0-040400-generic_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_amd64.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4-wily/linux-image-4.4.0-040400-generic_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i *.deb

32-bit system

cd /tmp/ wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4-wily/linux-headers-4.4.0-040400_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_all.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4-wily/linux-headers-4.4.0-040400-generic_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_i386.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4-wily/linux-image-4.4.0-040400-generic_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i *.deb

It is not recommended that Ubuntu Server be installed directly in a production environment, but can be tossed in a test environment.

After installation, restart the system.

Ubuntu Uninstall Linux Kernel 4.4

If you do not want to use Linux Kernel 4.4, you can always delete it by using the following command:

sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-4.4.0-* linux-image-4.4.0-* sudo update-grub Thank you for reading! About "How to upgrade Linux Kernel 4.4 kernel for Ubuntu" This article is shared here, I hope the above content can be of some help to everyone, so that everyone can learn more knowledge, if you think the article is good, you can share it to let more people see it!

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