news 28 Posted March 2, 2009 Hi Everyone, The Ubuntu Kernel Team is pleased to announce the availability of mainline kernel builds for testing [1]. This will allow users to run the unmodified upstream vanilla kernel. This can be useful for verifying fixes upstream, testing for regressions introduced by Ubuntu specific changes, or confirming bugs exist upstream and subsequently help to report bugs upstream. The mainline kernels are packaged for each stable release (and stable release update) as well as the current -rc releases. They are available as .deb files for easy installation. Keep in mind that even though they are built using the Ubuntu kernel config files, they do not contain any Ubuntu specific drivers. Also, there are no restricted modules for these kernels. They are strictly the vanilla mainline kernel source. That being said, the Ubuntu kernel team does not support these kernels so use at your own risk. Thanks, The Kernel Team [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds -- Share this post Link to post
