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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • December 18, 2003
    The latest major revision of the renowned kernel came out on Wednesday. This is from Stephen Shankland at News.com:

    ``Torvalds has been locking down the 2.6.0 test versions for months, and Andrew Morton, the programmer in charge of 2.6.0, has said he expected the software to be released in December. Torvalds formally passed the 2.6 baton to Morton in his announcement: `We'll work together, but Andrew is boss.'

    ``Torvalds said the remaining bugs were obscure and hard to find, giving an example a problem that cropped up only with 16- or 32-processor servers with faulty hard drives.

    ``At the top of Morton's list of changes coming with 2.6.0 is the ability to run on multiprocessor servers--the machines that run around the clock, handling tasks such as bank account management, stock trades, supermarket sales transactions and e-mail delivery. Whereas the 2.4 kernel works on servers with four or sometimes eight processors, the 2.6 kernels will stretch to 32-processor systems, Morton said.''

    And here's the rest of the story:
    http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5128546.html

    The kernel and ChangeLogs can be found here:
    http://kernel.org

    Here is an excellent review by Joseph Pranevich:
    http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html

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