How To Install Linux Kernel 3.5RC on Ubuntu via PPA

Linus Torvalds released the 3.5-rc3 and said that there's fewer commits. Below are some changes of Linux Kernel 3.5:

• A fair amount of Intel graphics driver changes.
• The AST KMS driver was merged for the ASpeed graphics hardware plus another KMS driver.
• There's now QEMU KMS driver support for the virtual Cirrus hardware.
• Many other open-source graphics driver changes.
• DMA-BUF PRIME support was merged. DMA-BUF itself also received MMAP/VMAP support.
• There's finally audio support for the Creative Sound Core3D sound cards that succeed the Sound Blaster X-Fi. There's also support for the Xonar DGX sound card and other audio updates.
• Better input support for the kernel drivers.
• A multitude of ARM device improvements.
• CRC32 meta-data support for EXT4.
• Some technical Btrfs file-system improvements.

Installing Linux Kernel 3.5RC on Ubuntu
Please note that this release is currently under development, so don't install it on a production system. Well, if you want to give it a try, simply open your Terminal and run:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If something goes wrong and you change your mind to revert it back to default Kernel version on Ubuntu, please run:

• sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
• sudo ppa-purge ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

via: Phoronix