Linux 2.6.22 Kernel Released

Posted by kdawson on Sunday July 8, 2007 @09:33PM from the when-you-must-have-the-latest dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linux creator Linus Torvalds announced the official release of the 2.6.22 kernel: 'It's out there now (or at least in the process of mirroring out — if you don't see everything, give it a bit of time).' The previous stable kernel, 2.6.21, was released a little over two months ago. New features in the 2.6.22 kernel include a SLUB allocator which replaces the slab allocator, a new wireless stack, a new Firewire stack, and support for the Blackfin architecture. Source-level changes can be tracked via the gitweb interface to Linus' kernel tree."

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Re:What is this? by MadJo · 2007-07-08 23:02 · Score: 1, Offtopic

How about an iPhone-like phone that runs Linux? :)

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If there isn't going to be a 3.0 release... by smittyoneeach · 2007-07-08 23:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What is the point of retaining the 2.6?
Why not just call the thing "22"? This has the advantage of putting the kernel in the same version neighborhood as GNU/Emacs.
Oh, wait...being too close to GNU/Emacs's version number might bring development to a crawl.
Never mind.

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