Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.4.23 on Ubuntu. How to install Linux Kernel 4.4.23 on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint Systems. Linux kernel 4.4.23 LTS has been released with a total of 84 files, with 625 insertions and 512 deletions.
Linux kernel 4.4.23
Linux kernel 4.4.23 LTS is released with various architecture improvements, such as ARM, Blackfin, ARM64, and MIPS. It also brings various filesystem changes, such as autofs4, Btrfs, HostFS, OCFS2, XFS, and ReiserFS filesystems. The changes doesn’t stop here, the Kernel 4.4.23 brings improvements for IPv4, IPv6, wireless and Transparent Inter-process Communication (TIPC).
Announcing to Kernel 4.4.23 release, Linux Torvalds wrote:
“I’m announcing the release of the 4.4.23 kernel. All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade,” says Greg Kroah-Hartman. “The updated 4.4.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.4.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary.”
Install Linux kernel 4.4.23 on 64 Bit Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Linux kernel 4.4.23 on 32 Bit Ubuntu Systems:
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.23/linux-headers-4.4.23-040423_4.4.23-040423.201609300709_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.23/linux-headers-4.4.23-040423-generic_4.4.23-040423.201609300709_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.23/linux-headers-4.4.23-040423-lowlatency_4.4.23-040423.201609300709_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.4.23*.deb linux-image-4.4.23*.deb
sudo reboot
Install Linux kernel 4.4.23 on 32 Bit Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Linux kernel 4.4.23 on 32 Bit Ubuntu Systems:
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.23/linux-headers-4.4.23-040423_4.4.23-040423.201609300709_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.23/linux-headers-4.4.23-040423-generic_4.4.23-040423.201609300709_i386.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.23/linux-headers-4.4.23-040423-lowlatency_4.4.23-040423.201609300709_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.4.23*.deb linux-image-4.4.23*.deb
sudo reboot
Remove Linux kernel 4.4.23 from Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to uninstall and remove Linux kernel 4.4.23 from Ubuntu Systems:
sudo apt-get remove 'linux-headers-4.4.23*' 'linux-image-4.4.23*'