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.

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