News
Linux 2.4 Finally Available
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/05/2001
The wait for the release of the Linux 2.4 kernel is finally
over.
Just five days after Linux creator Linus Torvalds posted a
note on the Internet saying that 2.4 was not ready yet, he switched gears on
Thursday when he wrote an email to the Kernel Mailing List saying that the
kernel was now available for download.
When he posted the note about the delay on New Years Eve,
Torvalds alluded to some minor problems that had to be fixed and urged programmers
to test out the pre-release version of the product.
Torvalds had a change of heart, however, saying, “things
don't get better from having the same people test it over and over again. In
short, 2.4.0 is out there.”
Linux users have been waiting eagerly for the 2.4 release,
mainly because of the increased multiprocessor scalability. The 2.4 kernel
supports 8-processor SMP systems, a feature that should enable to compete with
Microsoft in all but the highest-end configurations.
The Linux 2.4 kernel is available for download at www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/. - James Martin
About the Author
Scott Bekker is editor in chief of Redmond Channel Partner magazine.