article documents the version history of the Linux kernel. Each major version – identified by the first two numbers of a release version – is designated one...

Linux began in 1991 as a personal project by Finnish student Linus Torvalds to create a new free operating system kernel. The resulting Linux kernel has...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Debian version history Fedora Linux release history openSUSE version history Linux kernel version history "The story of Ubuntu", Ubuntu...

Linux (/ˈlɪnʊks/ LIN-uuks) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released...

The Linux kernel is a free and open source: 4  Unix-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds...

to the Free Software Foundation Latin America, Linux-libre is a modified version of the Linux kernel that contains no binary blobs, obfuscated code,...

The distribution included a previous version of GCC for compiling the kernel, called "kgcc". As of Red Hat Linux 8.0, UTF-8 was enabled as the default...

Rust for Linux is an ongoing project started in 2020 to add Rust as a programming language that can be used within the Linux kernel software, which has...

release", is version 9.13, released on 18 July 2020; 4 years ago (2020-07-18). Major upgrades include the Linux kernel going from version 3.16 to 4.9,...

kernel to function as a hypervisor. It was merged into the mainline Linux kernel in version 2.6.20, which was released on February 5, 2007. KVM requires a...

Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial Linux distribution developed by Red Hat. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86-64,...

desktop and Linux kernel 6.0 (or later). This edition was first released on 16 August 2020. AHS (Advanced Hardware Support), a 64-bit only version of Xfce...

Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux kernel security module that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies, including...

phones on the Your Phone app, Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2; WSL 2 includes a custom Linux kernel, unlike its predecessor), the ability to use Windows...

Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset (ELKS), formerly known as Linux-8086, is a Linux-like operating system kernel. It is a subset of the Linux kernel, intended...

first commercial distribution to include version 2 of the Linux kernel. Caldera offered three versions of OpenLinux, with one for hackers and the other two...

following is an implementation of the Linux kernel final initialization in kernel_init(): static int __ref kernel_init(void *unused) { ... /* * We try...

some other Linux kernel developers had previously taken advantage of. Version control List of version-control software Comparison of version-control software...

kernel. Ubuntu's kernel linux-3.2.0-17-generic has been tested and is known to work. This can benefit those who like to avoid building custom kernels...

use GNU software and the Linux kernel should be referred to as "GNU/Linux" or "Linux" systems. Proponents of the term Linux argue that it is far more...

The Linux console is a system console internal to the Linux kernel. A system console is the device which receives all kernel messages and warnings and...

project. Free and open-source software portal A/UX mkLinux OSF/1 "Kernel Architecture Overview". Kernel Programming Guide. Archived from the original on May...

Linux Security Modules (LSM) is a framework allowing the Linux kernel to support, without bias, a variety of computer security models. LSM is licensed...

specific build postmarketOS, a Linux distribution for mobile devices, is based on Alpine Linux. "Re: [leaf-devel] 2.6.x kernel support?". SourceForge. "Alpine...

the Linux kernel. Originally created as an entry to a Linux logo competition, Tux is the most commonly used icon for Linux, although different Linux distributions...

Cooperative Linux, abbreviated as coLinux, is software which allows Microsoft Windows and the Linux kernel to run simultaneously in parallel on the same...

collection of patches and additions to the Linux 2.2.13 kernel on December 18, 1999, to start today's mainline Linux on IBM Z. Formal product announcements...

eventually became the basis for Mac OS X. NeXTSTEP was based on the Mach kernel developed at CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) and BSD, an implementation...

tablet-only Android update – was released, based on Linux kernel 2.6.36. The first device featuring this version, the Motorola Xoom tablet, was released on February...

into. After the minor version number in the Linux kernel is the release number, in ascending order; for example, Linux 2.4.0 → Linux 2.4.22. Since the 2004...