Linux Kernel 4.6.2 Released with Numerous MIPS Enhancements, EXT4 and XFS Fixes

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, June 8, 2016, Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the availability of the second maintenance release of the Linux 4.6 kernel series, urging all users to update as soon as possible.

Linux kernel 4.6 was announced by Linus Torvalds on May 15, 2016, but its adoption amongst various popular GNU/Linux operating systems is rather slow. Some waited for the first point release announced last week on June 1, with which lots of users reported boot issues, but only a couple are using it – openSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch Linux, as far as we know.

It appears that the rest of the distributions prefer to use a long-term support (LTS) kernel releases, such as Linux 4.4, including the popular Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and the upcoming Solus 1.2. On the other hand, there are a few distros out there that have s… (read more)

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