May 10, 2014

Download Iso With Upgraded Kernel

The iso downloaded from the main site ships with kernel 3.2.0-51-generic as can be seen in the picture below when running the command uname -r in terminal :


You might have problems booting and installing elementary OS with newer hardware. In this case you can download an upgraded iso with a newer kernel from this page : http://sourceforge.net/projects/elementaryos/files/unstable/ .

Choose elementaryos-unstable-amd64.20140331.iso or elementaryos-unstable-i386.20140331.iso according to your architecture ( unstable here just means updated ).
Kernel version :  3.11.0-19-generic ( date : 2014-04-01 ).

Elementary OS is based on Ubuntu 12.0.4 LTS ( Long Time Support ).  In order to support a wider variety of hardware Ubuntu releases so called Point Releases ( 12.0.4.x ) with an updated kernel, X.Org-Stack and Mesa ( see : LTS Enablement Stacks ). Latest version is 12.0.4.4.

In case you run elementary OS with kernel 3.2 successfully and think about upgrading to a newer kernel, you should read this article first : http://shnatsel.blogspot.com.es/2013/12/why-you-should-not-upgrade-kernel-on.html
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3 comments:

  1. UnknownMay 11, 2014 at 7:54 PM

    this is not Isis, but a user build iso of gnome and the daily ppa.
    Be careful with the information you publish.

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    1. EricMay 11, 2014 at 7:59 PM

      Did I say somewhere this is about Isis ? It is just Luna with an upgraded kernel.

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  2. EricMay 11, 2014 at 8:06 PM

    Btw, see the discussion on Google+

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