What is Linux?
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Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, 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, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and multistack networking including IPv4 and IPv6.
It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and multistack networking including IPv4 and IPv6.
https://kernel.org/doc/html/v6.0-rc4/admin-guide/README.html
Why is it named Linux kernel 6.0?
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After the release of version 5.19 of the Linux kernel, people were expecting 5.20 as the next version. However, Linus Torvalds, developer of the Linux kernel decided to go on with 6.0 as the version number. But this decision was only based on the numbers; the “20” in 5.20 was a too big number, so Linus changed the “5” and it became 6.0. Nothing revolutionary comes with Linux kernel 6.0; it is a usual kernel release.
What’s new in Linux kernel 6.0?
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* CPU-related changes
* Additional changes for CPUs
* Virtualization improvements
* GPU driver support
* File system changes
* Other changes
* Additional changes for CPUs
* Virtualization improvements
* GPU driver support
* File system changes
* Other changes
Some of the remaining new features/fixes of Linux kernel 6.0 are listed below:
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* UEFI mirrored memory is now supported on AArch64 systems
* ACPI PRM is now supported on AArch64 systems
* New parameter to set a new hostname: “hostname=”
* Run-time verification feature for safety-critical systems
* Some networking optimizations
* WiFi7 preparations
* ACPI PRM is now supported on AArch64 systems
* New parameter to set a new hostname: “hostname=”
* Run-time verification feature for safety-critical systems
* Some networking optimizations
* WiFi7 preparations
The new Linux kernel is expected to be released on the 2nd of October, 2022.
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