p2pnet - rss feed: New Linux kernel released
The new 2.6 Linux kernel is the most stable new production release ever and promises to reshape computing industry with key new enterprise and desktop features, promises the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL).
The software is available on the Web as source code
here or ftp.kernel.org. The last significant release was the 2.4 version in January 2001.
"With the new kernel, I think we’re getting closer to Linux for everyone," Linus Torvalds says here. "I think this is the best yet and I had a lot of fun working on it."
Torvalds, a Lab Fellow at OSDL, will now hand off ongoing maintenance of the new 2.6 Linux production kernel to Andrew Morton, whose Linux development work is sponsored by OSDL. Torvalds, Morton and other key Linux developers are expected to start work in early 2004 on a new test and development Linux kernel to be called version 2.7.
The new Linux kernel has already received broad support from some of the world’s leading technology companies, including Computer Associates, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, Mitsubishi Electric, Miracle Linux, MontaVista Software, NTT COMWARE, NEC, Novell, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, SUSE and Turbolinux. http://www.osdl.org/newsroom/press_releases/2003/2003_12_18_beaverton_quotes.html.
"With the new production Linux kernel, customers will see significant performance and reliability improvements in a wide range of computing uses for Linux, from embedded to desktop to data center and telecommunications applications," says OSDL.
"Improvements include scalability to 64-CPU systems and beyond, faster threading, added memory support, enhanced disk drive performance and storage access, broader embedded chip support, and bolstered desktop computer enhancements for plug and play, studio-quality sound, USB, firewire, and more."
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