 Linux Kernal 2.4.0 Released
Posted on Friday, January 05 @ 10:22:00 PST by Fido
The long-awaited next version of the Linux kernel was released Thursday by Linus Torvalds, Linux creator and keeper of the open-source operating system kernel. In a short e-mail sent at 4:01 PST, Torvalds said version 2.4.0 of the system is "out there." The highly anticipated 2.4 kernel offers increased symmetrical multiprocessing scalability, a must-have feature for corporate applications running on Linux servers. Earlier kernels were generally thought to only scale well up to four processors. The new version may support up to 16. Version 2.4 will also sport greater support for USB, a key for uses in desktop PCs and network appliances. In his short and humorous message to the kernel mailing list, Torvalds encouraged developed to have fun with the new version and suggested he wanted a few days off before people started reporting bugs. "Anxiously awaited for the last too many months, 2.4.0 brings to the table many improvements, none of which come to mind to the exhausted release manager right now," he wrote. [Source: TechWeb]
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