14 DAY TRIAL // The latest version of the Linux kernel has been finally released, after being postponed twice for basically no good reason. Originally, this 2.6.14 version was supposed to be available starting October 7th, as Andrew Morton, the man responsible for developing the Linux kernel, said in a mailing list posting in September.
Linus Torvalds, the father of the Linux operating system, said that the repeated delay was a result of fears the kernel included bugs, which eventually turned out to be false.
Anyway, the kernel developers are quite enthusiastic about the changes in this latest version and say that it includes improvements "all over the place", such as updates to "pretty much every architecture" and changes to a number of subsystems.
Now, the kernel includes support for the Intel Centrino notebook technology and the support for the high-speed networking standard InfiniBand has also been improved.