Get current stable kernel version string from kernel.org

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By: mdix

2012-06-15 21:28:42

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Get current stable kernel version string from kernel.org

depends on "jq" This is more reliable in my opinion. Show Sample Output
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```
5.0
```
5

curl -s https://www.kernel.org/releases.json | jq '.latest_stable.version' -r

ernierasta · 2019-03-06 08:48:04 42

Download current stable kernel version from kernel.org

Access www.kernel.org and download the last stable linux kernel release. Show Sample Output

wget --no-check-certificate https://www.kernel.org/$(wget -qO- --no-check-certificate https://www.kernel.org | grep tar | head -n1 | cut -d\" -f2)

glaudiston · 2013-11-07 18:46:14 8

Get current stable kernel version string from kernel.org

Fetches latest stable release version from first entry between tags Show Sample Output
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```
3.12.5
```
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curl -s -k https://www.kernel.org/feeds/kdist.xml | sed -n -e 's@.*<guid>$.*$</guid>.*@\1@p' | grep 'stable' | head -1 | awk -F , '{print $3}'

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