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Linux Kernel 3.0 RC1 is Officially Released!

Few hours ago, someone called Linus Torvalds :P released the first ever version 3.0 of Linux Kernel!, which took some long long time. Although before anyone gets too excited, according to Mr. Linus... this does not bring any new features. But that's not to say that the Kernel 3.0 doesn't bring anything new.

As usual, concerning hardware drivers ... to the 3.0 RC, they've added few GPU driver updates, bug fixes of VM, VFS cleanups, few ARM consolidations, AMD fusion and Intel platform enhancements and finally the support for Microsoft Kinect Linux driver are added (the notable ones).

So, if there are no "major" features available, then why the heck they released it?.

"I'm actually older than I look :)"...

Well... to quote Linus himself...
"We've been doing time-based releases for many years now, this is in no way about features.If you want an excuse for the renumbering, you really should look at the time-based one ('20 years') instead..."
Basically it took Kernel developers roughly around 14-15 years to jump from the version 2 to the 3. I guess that they just wanted to start with a stable "number" and move steady rather than adding lot of features all of a sudden and making things "complicated". 

Since the latest 3.0 version is at its RC (release candidate) stage... it should interesting which distribution/s has the courage to ship it with their OS and let user get a "taste" of this latest release of the GNU/Linux despite of all these "no new features" talks :). Oh, btw, you can download it from this official Kernel release page.

5 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 26, 2011 at 9:57 PM

    Aptosid uses it and Archlinux updated to it this week.

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  2. GayanAugust 27, 2011 at 7:48 AM

    @Anonymous,

    Good to hear that pal. So you're A arch Geek ha? ;-)...

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  3. AnonymousAugust 27, 2011 at 6:57 PM

    I've got Ubuntu on my main pc and I just changed my experimental one from Arch to Aptosid. Arch has loads of help in the forums so as long as you can read, everything works fine, but I'm starting to think Aptsid was a very bad idea :-)

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  4. GayanAugust 27, 2011 at 7:16 PM

    @Anonymous,

    Hmm... I've used Arch in the past (for a very short period) but at that time I didn't have a faster Internet connection and wasn't the most "off-line" friendly distro in those days.

    Not sure how it is with Arch these days, but without an internet connection, it was pretty much useless at that time.

    Apart from that, it's an impressive distribution actually...

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  5. AnonymousAugust 30, 2011 at 4:44 PM

    Yes, I've since discovered that Aptosid isn't so impressive and I'm now in the process of reinstalling Arch with LXDE :-)

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