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++ C |
Recent releases
- 25 Dec 2008 11:45
Changes: This version adds support for the Ext4 filesystem, Ultra Wide Band (Wireless USB, UWB-IP), memory performance improvements, a boot tracer, disk shock protection, the phonet network protocol, support for SSD discard requests, transparent proxy support, several new network drivers, controllable IO CPU affinity, high-resolution poll()/select(), support of a minimal "dummy" policy in SELinux, tracing improvements, x86 x2APIC support, a fb driver for VIA UniChrome devices, Mitac Mio A701 ARM-based smartphone support, some new drivers, and many small improvements and fixes.
- 07 Dec 2008 10:53
Changes: This version contains all the fixes from 2.4.36.9, plus a few minor add-ons, such as better support for many recent SATA controllers, automatic unregistering of usb-storage devices, support for the rootdelay cmdline parameter allowing one to boot on USB devices, addition of the netfilter classify patch, support for AMD Geode's I2C, watchdog and RNG. Users of 2.4.36 are encouraged to test and upgrade, as 2.4.36 will not be maintained very long now.
- 07 Sep 2008 19:13
Changes: Several SCTP fixes (including CVE-2008-2826). A fix for a missing capabilities check in sbni.c (CVE-2008-3525). A few sanity checks have been added to the PPPoE driver from 2.6. There is a conntrack fix and other minor fixes. Documentation has been added to explain how to build a compatible version of GCC on recent distributions.
- 07 Sep 2008 19:07
Changes: Resynchronized with 2.4.36.7. Support for several IDE/PATA/SATA controllers. Assignment of SCSI devices with USB storage has been fixed. The "rootdelay" boot parameter and the CLASSIFY netfilter target have been added. A few other minor issues were fixed. Overall, this release should be rock solid and compatible with more hardware than 2.4.36.
- 07 May 2008 03:15
Changes: This version fixes local security issues CVE-2008-1375 and CVE-2008-1669. Users of 2.4 are encouraged to upgrade (or to apply the fixes).
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Recent commentsupdate
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.