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Linux kernel release 2.6.xx
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Linux kernel release 2.6.xx <http://kernel.org>
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These are the release notes for Linux version 2.6. Read them carefully,
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as they tell you what this is all about, explain how to install the
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WHAT IS LINUX?
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Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with
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assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net.
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It aims towards POSIX compliance.
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Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by
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Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across
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the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.
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It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged
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Unix, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
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demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
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management and TCP/IP networking.
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It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix,
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including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand
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loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management,
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and multistack networking including IPv4 and IPv6.
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It is distributed under the GNU General Public License - see the
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accompanying COPYING file for more details.
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ON WHAT HARDWARE DOES IT RUN?
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Linux was first developed for 386/486-based PCs. These days it also
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runs on ARMs, DEC Alphas, SUN Sparcs, M68000 machines (like Atari and
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Amiga), MIPS and PowerPC, and others.
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Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher),
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today Linux also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and
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UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH,
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IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS,
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and Renesas M32R architectures.
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Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures
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as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the
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GNU C compiler (gcc) (part of The GNU Compiler Collection, GCC). Linux has
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also been ported to a number of architectures without a PMMU, although
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functionality is then obviously somewhat limited.
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DOCUMENTATION:
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