Linux For EveryOne

Linus Torvalds has announced the immediate availability of the first release candidate of Linux kernel 2.6.24 series: “This may count as one of the biggest -rc releases ever. It’s humongous. Usually the compressed -rc1 diffs are in the 3-5MB range, with occasional smaller ones, and the occasional ones that top 6M, but this one is *eleven* megs
The “hot stuff” in this release are the x86 merge, the scatter-gather changes to the block layer, some VM changes and some VFS layer changes. And, as usual, there are new drivers (for dvb, wired and wireless network, mmc etc.), a fair amount or architecture stuff, new filesystems, networking improvements and much more.

“So there’s just lots of new stuff. The diffstat is ten thousand lines long, and weighing in at comfortably over half a megabyte it is way over the limits of this - or any sane - mailing list. The shortlog is barely shorter, weighing in at “just” 8461 lines and almost 400k. The full changelog (which I’m still producing for y’all, since people told me they actually care last time I asked) is 4 megs.” - stated Linus Torvalds in the release announcement.

For a full change-log with all the new features, drivers and improvements, please click here. Beware though - it’s 4 MB long!

The Linux Kernel is the essential part of all Linux Distributions, responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, and basic file system management.

Linux is a clone of the Unix operating system, initially written from scratch by Linus Torvalds, assisted by a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims to achieve POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.

You can get the 2.6.24 RC1 patch from here.

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