Easy Way To Upgrade Kernel ?

[Liam Proven]

On 24 June 2010 22:40, Jesse Palser <slnthero at aol.com> wrote:
> Easy Way To Upgrade Kernel ?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Can someone tell me or provide a link to
> an easy method to upgrade the kernel
> on my Ubuntu 10.04 Linux 32bit Operating System?
>
> I need to upgrade the kernel to the current Release Candidate
> as it provides better support for the 3g modem in my netbook.
>
> Currently running the default Kernel Linux 2.6.32-22-generic
> and wish to install newest "v2.6.35-rc3-maverick".
>
> Also is it safe to do this on a computer I use everyday?
> And what will happen when the next official kernel is released?
> (will v2.6.35-rc3-maverick kernel be replaced by an older official one?)

This is not a direct answer but may be helpful.

I have not done this in some years - probably since Ubuntu 5.x or 6.x
- but when I needed a newer kernel, I just downloaded the sources from
kernel.org and built my own. This was pretty straightforward - there
are TONS of HOWTOs out there, doing this used to be a routine task on
Linux in the 1990s - and it worked fine.

I think that would be easier than trying to install just 1 package
from a different release of the distro.

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