Linux Kernel is the essential part of Linux, responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, and basic file system management.
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.
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Timer free multitasking;
· Added Bcache, a block layer cache for SSD caching;
· Smaller extents support for the Btrfs filesystem;
· XFS metadata checksums;
· SysV IPC scalability improvements;
· Semaphores scalability improvements;
· Added TCP Tail loss probe algorithm;
· MIPS KVM support.
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