Linux Kernel 5.0
On March 3 Linus Torvalds He launched the Linux Kernel 5.0. The latest version of the Linux kernel was only publicly available for a week before it received its first update, the Linux Kernel 5.0.1. It is not news that has spread like wildfire and I have personally found out because I wanted to update the Kernel to the latest version because I have read that it will improve the speed of the WiFi, which on my PC is not doing too well. Greatness He was the one who “told me” that there was already a new version.
Greg Kroah-Hartman released Linux Kernel 10 last Sunday, the 5.0.1th, along with other minor maintenance releases. Some of the bugs that the new version corrects do not affect the majority of users, or at least the majority of readers of Ubunlog. And one of the problems it solves has to do with one of the computers that Apple manufactures, the MacBook Pro. But this is not the only problem that they have fixed with the new release.
What Linux Kernel 5.0.1 Fixes
- Unconditional setting of the X86_FEATURE_CPB bit for all «Zen» processors of the AMD 17h family. Some 17h models do not have the CPB configuration although all 17h CPUs support it, so now the kernel does it automatically. CPB is the kernel acceleration mode.
- Fix potential vulnerabilities of Spectro V1 within the driver Applicom.
- Fixes a startup problem on MacBook Pros.
- Various fixes for the driver Read-only file system "EROFS".
- Various other fixes. In total several hundred lines of code have been added. In this article You can see a complete list of the changes introduced in Linux Kernel 5.0.1.
If you want to update to the latest version, I think it is best to use the Ukuu application previously mentioned. You just have to start it, wait for it to load all the available options, select one, click "Install", wait and close the window when you ask us to. It is actually so simple that it costs more (taking time away) to write than to do.
Have you already updated the Kernel of your operating system to v5.0 or v5.0.1? How are you doing?