Berikut beberapa fitur terbarunya :
Installasi Linux Kernel 3.8
- Updates to XFS
- Adding support for Samsung's F2FS file-system
- Improved Btrfs performance
- Improved support for ACPI power management
- Improved support for audio drivers
- Dropping support for the Intel 386 CPU
- AVX optimizations
- Improved performance for AMD Radeon/Nvidia
- Adding support for Intel "Haswell" CPU, etc.
Untuk install Linux Kernel 3.8 di Ubuntu/Linux Mint, buka terminal dan masukan perintah berikut :
cd /tmp
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47950494/upubuntu.com/kernel-3.8 -O kernel-3.8
chmod +x kernel-3.8
sudo sh kernel-3.8
sudo reboot
Linux Kernel 3.8 Removal
Jika Anda tidak suka atau tidak cocok, untuk menghapus Kernel 3.8 gunakan perintah berikut :
sudo apt-get purge linux-image-3.8.0*