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Linux Kernel 2.6.17 Is Finally Out Crazed Snow-Weasel a.k.a Linux Kernel 2.6.17	By Marius Nestor, Linux Editor 18th of June 2006, 11:44 GMT Adjust text size:


Linux Kernel 2.6.17 has finally been released today, after many builds of the 2.6.16 version. Linus Torvalds says: Being named "Crazed Snow-Weasel" instills a lot of confidence in this release, so I'm sure this will be one of the better ones. 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 operating system Unix, initially written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. This version of the kernel also contains a number of fixes and updates, all of which can be found in the official change-log. You can download right now the new Linux kernel 2.6.17 from Softpedia.

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