14 DAY TRIAL // Linus Torvalds announced today the final and stable release of the Linux kernel, version 2.6.20:
"I tried rather hard to make 2.6.20 largely a 'stabilization release'. Unlike a lot of kernels lately, there aren't really any big fundamental changes to some core infrastructure area, and while we always have bugs, I really am hoping that we fixed many more than we introduced.
Have fun. And remember: the thousandth decimal is, of course, 9. There *will* be a test on this afterwards."
Highlights of this release include:
￭ Sony Playstation 3 support ￭ Virtualization support through KVM ￭ Paravirtualization support for i386 ￭ Relocatable kernel support for x86 ￭ Fault injection ￭ IO Accounting ￭ Relative atime support ￭ UDP-Lite support ￭ Generic HID layer ￭ Sleazy FPU optimization ￭ Use 'regparm' in x86-32 ￭ round_jiffies() infrastructure ￭ New drivers
For a full change-log with all the new features and improvements, please visit this website.
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.
You can download the Linux kernel now from Softpedia.