Linux kernel 3.7 RC8 was announced yesterday and Linus Torvalds has taken the opportunity to scold the kernel developers for prolonging the release of the 3.7 branch with minor problems.
One of the main reasons the eighth Release Candidate was released for the 3.7 branch was because of a kswapd issue. This problem has pushed t... (read more)
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)
On February 18, Linus Torvalds announced the immediate availability for download of the final version of Linux Kernel 3.8 Linus Torvalds has announced that the final version of the new Linux Kernel, 3.8, is now ready for download and he even hinted that he waited a couple of days to launch it in o... (read more)
Linus Torvalds has announced the immediate availability of the fifth release candidate in the 3.9 branch of the Linux kernel.
It seems that not even Easter could stop Linus Torvalds from launching yet another release candidate. The development for the latest version of the Linux kernel must go on.
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On January 9, Linus Torvalds announced the immediate availability for download of the third release candidate for the Linux 3.8.x kernel series.
The development process is going back to a normal pace or at least this is what Linus Torvalds has told us in the announcement for the latest Linux kernel, 3.8 RC3.
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Linus Torvalds announced the immediate availability for download of the third released candidate for the Linux 3.7 kernel series. According to Linus Torvalds, this new release candidate for the Linux kernel 3.7.x branch holds nothing extraordinary, with just a few memory leak fixes in USB serial drivers and some other stuff.
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)
Yesterday, Linus Torvalds announced the release of the final stable version Linux 3.0. With the release of Linux 3.0, Torvalds has finally brought Linux out of the 2.6.x series, which had been in development for more than seven years.Linux 3.0 was actually planned for release in the second week of July, but a bug with the RCU meant that he had to release another RC instead.
After yet another seven Release Candidate versions, Linus Torvalds proudly announced yesterday, July 21st, the immediate availability for download of Linux kernel 3.5. Linux kernel 3.5 brings various interesting features (check out the highlights below and the quote from Linus Torvalds’ announcement) among which we can mention supp... (read more)