The fifth Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux kernel 3.4 is available for testing

Apr 30, 2012 08:06 GMT  ·  By

Linus Torvalds announced yesterday, April 29th, that the fifth Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.4 kernel is available for download and testing.

Linux kernel 3.4 RC5 includes 50% driver updates, 20% Arch. fixes, 15% filesystem improvements (Btrfs and NFS), 5% networking updates, as well as random bugfixes.

"And like -rc4, quite a bit of the changes came in on Friday (with some more coming in yesterday). And we haven't been calming down, quite the reverse. -rc5 has almost 50% more commits than -rc4 had. Not good."

"That said, I don't think there is anything hugely scary there." - said Linus Torvalds in the email announcement.

Download Linux Kernel 3.4 RC5 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.

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