The Linux kernel 3.9 was released on on Monday, April 29, 2013 by Linus and currently I’m running the new kernel on my Ubuntu 13.04 machine but you can do this on any Ubuntu version. This article will describe how you can compile the mainline kernel from the official kernel.org git repository in a Ubuntu way.
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This article will describe how you can compile the latest kernel from the official kernel.org git repository in a Ubuntu way. As you can tell I’m not referring to any kernel version because this will work for any kernel version you can pull from the official kernel.org repository, but for the better readability I’ll be compiling version 3.3.
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At the beginning of the year the Linux kernel 3.2 was released and Canonical has made it the official kernel for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), but what if you want to run the Linux kernel 3.2 on your Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)? Well you can, by compiling your own version following this step by step guide. We’ll be using the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS version of the Linux Kernel 3.2
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As Ubuntu 11.10 was released it’s time for another article in my “How to compile a kernel for Ubuntu …” series. This article will show you how to get the latest kernel from the Ubuntu kernel maintainers for Ubuntu 11.10 and create a kernel which you can modify to make it more suited for your computer.
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Ubuntu 11.04 was released a while back and I’ve been getting questions about compiling your own kernel for Ubuntu 11.04. I’ve just been busy with other projects but as I have been writing articles on “How to compile a kernel for Ubuntu …” for a few releases and there is no exception for Ubuntu 11.04.
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