Kernel 3.9 available for Pear OS 7

Written by David T. (Admin) on . Posted in Blog, Pear OS 7

Linux Kernel 3.9 was finally released after eight Release Candidate versions. This simple and brief tutorial will show you how to install / update / upgrade to Kernel 3.9 in Pear OS 7.

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New features in Linux Kernel 3.9:

  • Improved support for the F2FS (Flash Friendly File-System) filesystem for Samsung developers;
  • Improved ARM support;
  • Zero-Power Optical device driver;
  • Audio/sound improvements;
  • Initial support for AMD Radeon HD 8000 series;
  • Synopsys ARC700 CPU support;
  • Improved ARM SoC support;
  • Improved power management;
  • Faster LZO compression;
  • Experimental RAID5/6 support for the Btrfs filesystem;
  • Fixes EXT4 corruption bug;
  • Google’s Goldfish.
  • ……

Install Linux Kernel 3.9 on Pear OS :

Pear OS 7 – Kernel repository

- Install kernel 3.9 on Pear OS 7

Tested with Pear OS 7 (final release) with AMD & NVidia graphic card