Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.24-rc6, released by Linus on December 20. "The regression list keeps shrinking, so we're still on track for a full 2.6.24 release in early January. Assuming we don't all overeat during the holidays and nobody gets any work done. But we all know that the holidays are really the time when we get away from the boring 'real work', and can spend 24/7 on kernel hacking instead, right?" The long-form changelog has the details.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.24-rc6-mm1. Recent changes to -mm (beyond failing to work on i386 systems) include a bunch of low-level driver model changes, some tmpfs reworking, some ext4 updates, and the beginning of the removal of the fastcall function attribute.

For older kernels: 2.4.36 was released on January 1 with a number of fixes.

For crazy people: 0.01 was released by Abdel Benamrouche on January 1.

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Linux 0.01 ported???

Posted Jan 8, 2008 8:41 UTC (Tue) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link]

Huh? I distinctly remember that Linux 0.02 was the first version to get more widely distributed and that 0.01 would not even run properly *on any platform*. So if 0.01 was ported to GCC 4 and bochs and whatnot, does it mean that it also does not run properly on bochs?