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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After about eleven weeks of development, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux kernel 2.6.37. The new version of the main development line has many improvements.
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)
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 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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While we have conducted studies related to the Linux kernel performance in the past such as benchmarking up to twelve kernel releases, going out the door this morning are the results from the largest-ever Linux kernel comparison conducted at Phoronix, and very likely the largest ever of its kind regardless of source.
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.
Following a two week merge window following the release of the Linux 2.6.33 kernel, Linus Torvalds has announced the first release candidate for the next kernel, to be known as the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. Of a lot of interest to us (and likely you too) are all of the GPU DRM updates in the Linux 2.6.
As you are probably aware, Linus Torvalds had decided to bump the version number of the upcoming Linux kernel to 3.0. The development for Linux 3.0 has been going on for a while with the first release candidate being released on May 30th.The sixth release candidate was supposed to be the last one.
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