On March 17, Linus Torvalds announced the immediate availability of the third release candidate in the 3.9 branch of the Linux kernel. According to Linus Torvalds, this latest version of Linux kernel is not big and implements a regular number of changes and improvements. “Not as small as -rc2, but that on... (read more)
Linus Torvalds announced the immediate availability for download of the second released candidate for the Linux 3.7 kernel series.
Linux kernel 3.7 RC2 comes with a lot of new features, according to Linus Torvalds. Among the listed changes, we find that now the "uapi" includes file cleanups.
Linus Torvalds warned us that a... (read more)
Who wouldn’t want to be a Linux kernel developer?
Among the most visible features in the 3.6 kernel release is a “hybrid sleep” capability much like what has long been offered by Microsoft Windows. But plenty of other goodies also promise to improve life for Linux users, however.
Nearly twelve weeks after the release of Linux 2.6.5, Linus Torvalds has released Linux 2.6.36. The new version of the Linux kernel includes various performance enhancements and updates, the AppArmor security extension and support for the KDB-KMS-Debug-Shell. Other changes include a new Out-of-Memory (OOM) killer and kernel thread improvements.
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Yet another improved version of the Linux kernel was baked and delivered hot and fresh last night, May 16th, by Linus Torvalds. Linux Kernel 2.6.34 includes now two new filesystems, one for flash drives (LogFS), and Ceph, a distributed network filesystem. The new kernel also includes RCU lockdep, various improvements to the Btrfs filesystem, GPU swi...
The PC-BSD developers have announced the availability of version 8.0, the "Hubble Eidtion", of their open source operating system. According to the developers, the latest major release of the FreeBSD variant for desktops includes a number improvements, updates and enhancements over the previous 7. ...
Linus Torvalds is not a patient man and this trait has been made abundantly clear in the last Linux kernel announcement, for 3.10 RC5.Linus Torvalds has complained on numerous occasions about inconsequential patches sent to him, which only make the kernel bigger.The announcement for Linux kernel 3.10 RC5 is yet another attempt to determine the developers to send more important commits.“Guys,
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Linus Torvalds has released version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel.