Linux Torvalds announced the 4.14 kernel series , the latest stable release of the Linux kernel and one of the bigger releases and he...
In this tutorial, I will show you how to Install the Latest version of Kernel 4.14 On Ubuntu 17.04 / 16.04 LTS and LinuxMint.
The Latest stable version of Kernel is 4.14 and it released on 12th November 2017
Changes in this version 4.14
- Bigger memory limits
- Add support for AMD Secure Memory Encryption
- Better kernel traces with the ORC unwinder
- zstd compression in Btrfs Squashfs
- Zero-copy from user memory to sockets
- Heterogeneous Memory Management for future GPUs
- Better cpufreq coordination with SMP
- Longer-lived TLB Entries with PCID
Installation steps
Note : Don't Install this kernel on Production systems directly without testingThe below commands will work on Debian-based systems.
Step 1: Download the deb files directly using wget , copy the below commands and paste it in terminal one by one according to your CPU architecture
For 32 bit systems
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.14/linux-headers-4.14.0-041400_4.14.0-041400.201711122031_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.14/linux-headers-4.14.0-041400-generic_4.14.0-041400.201711122031_i386.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.14/linux-image-4.14.0-041400-generic_4.14.0-041400.201711122031_i386.deb
For 64 bit systems
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.14/linux-headers-4.14.0-041400_4.14.0-041400.201711122031_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.14/linux-headers-4.14.0-041400-generic_4.14.0-041400.201711122031_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.14/linux-image-4.14.0-041400-generic_4.14.0-041400.201711122031_amd64.debStep 2: After successful downloading install it
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.14* linux-image-4.14*Step 3: Verify installed Version
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