Linux Kernel 4.4.3 LTS Officially Released with Btrfs, ARM, and PowerPC Changes | Linux Today

Linux Kernel 4.4.3 LTS Officially Released with Btrfs, ARM, and PowerPC Changes

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Marius Nestor
Feb 29, 2016

Linux kernel 4.4.3 LTS is a fully-loaded release that promises to add better support for various hardware architectures, among which we can mention ARM, ARM64 (AArch64), m32r, PowerPC, and x86. Multiple drivers have been updated as well, in particular for things like iiO, IOMMU (I/O Memory Management Unit), NVDIMM, Phy, SCSI, iSCSI, TTY, and USB.

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Marius Nestor

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