Ubuntu 16.10 to Soon Get Linux Kernel 4.6.5, Be Powered by Linux Kernel 4.8

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The upcoming Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) operating system is currently in development, with a second Alpha build seeded to public testers at the end of July 2016.

However, the Ubuntu Kernel Team hasn’t yet managed to switch the distribution’s kernel packages to a recent stable or development version, as Ubuntu 16.10 remains powered by the long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel packages that are being used in the stable Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system.

The other day, they published a new installation of their weekly newsletter to inform the community and those willing to run Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) on their personal computers about the fact that the distro received the latest stable patches from the upstream Linux 4.6.5 kernel in the master-next tree.

Also, it looks like the unstable kernel branch for Ubuntu 16.10 was rebased on the latest stable and most advanced Linux kernel series, Linux 4.7. “Our Yakkety kernel master-next tree has applied the … (read more)

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