Linux
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, 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. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.
| Tags | Operating System Kernels Linux Operating Systems |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 08 May 2012 21:35
Release Notes: Android code has been merged in. This release updates btrfs, adds support for Open vSwitch, and has network stack optimization, better ext4 online resizing, TI C6X architecture support, and EFI boot support.
- 12 Jan 2012 22:18
Release Notes: This release brings many bugfixes.
- 05 Jan 2012 22:32
Release Notes: This release includes support for ext4 block sizes bigger than 4KB and up to 1MB, which improve performance with big files. btrfs has been updated with faster scrubbing, automatic backup of critical filesystem metadata, and tools for manual inspection of the filesystems. The process scheduler has support to set upper limits of CPU time. The desktop responsiveness in the presence of heavy writes has been improved. TCP has been updated to include an algorithm that speeds up the recovery.
- 04 Apr 2010 08:30
Release Notes: This is a release candidate (unstable) version, and is not meant for working environments. There are multiple kgd, microblaze, drm, ARM, USB, ALSA, PCI, fixes. Also, there are many little enhancements to the existing functions.
- 04 Apr 2010 08:30
Release Notes: Multiple USB, ALSA, PCI, drm, NFS, and architectural fixes and enhancements were done in this release.
Recent comments
update
26-Mar-2008 is the last update?
Re: IPC errors?
>
> % "does 2.6.x fix this" yes, thats for
> % sure... me and a friend of mine just
> % tested this version, it is stable.
Is there a solution for 2.4? I have several modules that haven't been updated for 2.6?
Re: Out of date
> Is it for a reason that the 2.6 branch
> hasnt been updated since 11-May-2006?
>
> The latest release is 2.6.19.1 from the
> 11-December-2006, the latest listed one
> is 2.6.16.16.
Seems there has been an update in april :-)
Re: Just a comment
I really agree with you. I love Linux because it becomes better and better.
Re: Out of date
> Is it for a reason that the 2.6 branch
> hasnt been updated since 11-May-2006?
Yes, you haven't updated it.
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