Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Release Candidate 4, Things Are Still Calm | Linux Today

Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Release Candidate 4, Things Are Still Calm

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Marius Nestor
Dec 6, 2015

In numbers, the fourth Release Candidate version of the Linux 4.4 kernel consists of approximately 70% driver updates, especially for things like GPU, SCSI, sound, and networking, 15% networking updates, and 15% is split between core improvements, architecture updates, etc.

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Marius Nestor

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