Linux Kernel 2.4.35 Available Now

After approximately 6 months of hard work, Willy Tarreau announced the availability of the 2.4.35 Linux kernel. One year ago, Willy Tarreau became the 2.4 branch maintainer and this is his second stable 2.4 kernel release: "I'm very conscious that 2.4 has mostly left desktop PCs and notebooks, but it's still commonly found on servers, route reflectors or firewalls. For this reason, I'm open to merge the small updates required to maintain such systems running (eg: PCI IDs and such), but I will generally refuse all patches which add support for new desktop or notebook-specific hardware, unless the people present very convincing arguments. Those people generally would better upgrade their systems to 2.6." - stated Willy Tarreau, the 2.4 kernel branch maintainer.

This new stable version of the 2.4 Linux kernel brings fixes over previous versions, and a small set of add-ons, such as:

￭ new PCI IDs
￭ more usb-storage unusual devs
￭ support for high-speed USB HID
￭ updated e1000 driver
￭ a few watchdog updates
￭ support for systems with no keyboard controller (mainly blades)
￭ backport of the skge and sky2 drivers from 2.6
￭ support for the "notsc" boot option for some broken dual-core x86_64 systems with no HPET
￭ LVM fixes

It was tested on x86 SMP, sparc64 SMP and alpha. For a full change-log with all the new features, fixes and improvements, please visit this website. As usual, please report any unexpected problems.

The Linux Kernel is the essential part of all Linux Distributions, responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, and basic file system management.

Linux is a clone of the Unix operating system, initially written from scratch by Linus Torvalds, assisted by a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims to achieve POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.

You can download the Linux kernel now from Softpedia.