- Support Near-field communication (NFC)
- Support OpenRISC CPU architecture
- Dynamic writeback throttling
- Support driver hardware lebih banyak
- Support 3D untuk chip graphic NVIDIA terbaru
- Virtualisation enhancements untuk Xen and KVM
- iSCSI implementation
- Support Wii controller , dll.
Buka terminal, ketik perintah berikut (Ubuntu 32-bit dan 64-bit):
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.1-oneiric/linux-headers-3.1.0-030100_3.1.0-030100.201110241006_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.1.0-030100_3.1.0-030100.201110241006_all.deb
Ubuntu (32-bit)
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.1-oneiric/linux-headers-3.1.0-030100-generic_3.1.0-030100.201110241006_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.1.0-030100-generic_3.1.0-030100.201110241006_i386.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.1-oneiric/linux-image-3.1.0-030100-generic_3.1.0-030100.201110241006_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-image-3.1.0-030100-generic_3.1.0-030100.201110241006_i386.deb
Ubuntu (64-bit)
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.1-oneiric/linux-headers-3.1.0-030100-generic_3.1.0-030100.201110241006_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.1.0-030100-generic_3.1.0-030100.201110241006_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.1-oneiric/linux-image-3.1.0-030100-generic_3.1.0-030100.201110241006_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-image-3.1.0-030100-generic_3.1.0-030100.201110241006_amd64.deb
Restart komputer, buka terminal ketik perintah dibawah untuk mengecek versi kernel yang sudah terinstall
uname -r
Hasilnya
~$ uname -r
3.1.0-030100-generic
Sumber: http://www.upubuntu.com/2011/11/how-to-install-kernel-31-on-ubuntu.html