The 3.0 kernel is out
The 3.0 kernel is out
Linus has announced the release of the 3.0
kernel. "As already mentioned several times, there are no special
landmark features or incompatibilities related to the version number
change, it's simply a way to drop an inconvenient numbering system in honor
of twenty years of Linux. In fact, the 3.0 merge window was calmer than
most, and apart from some excitement from RCU I'd have called it really
smooth.
" Beyond the numbering scheme change, this kernel includes POSIX alarm timer support, a just-in-time compiler for BPF packet filters,
a new sendmmsg() system call, ICMP
sockets, the merging of the Xen backend driver (completing the long process
of getting Xen Dom0 support into the kernel), namespace file descriptors, and more. See the
KernelNewbies 3.0 page for
lots of details.