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Welcome to the Linux Kernel Archives. This is the primary site for the Linux kernel source, but it has much more than just Linux kernels. Frequently Asked Questions
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| The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: | 2.6.27.9 | 2008-12-14 00:08 UTC | F | V | VI | C | Changelog |
| The latest prepatch for the stable Linux kernel tree is: | 2.6.28-rc8 | 2008-12-11 00:47 UTC | B | V | VI | C | Changelog |
| The latest snapshot for the stable Linux kernel tree is: | 2.6.28-rc8-git3 | 2008-12-15 12:01 UTC | B | V | C | ||
| The latest 2.4 version of the Linux kernel is: | 2.4.37 | 2008-12-02 08:13 UTC | F | V | VI | C | Changelog |
| The latest 2.2 version of the Linux kernel is: | 2.2.26 | 2004-02-25 00:28 UTC | F | V | Changelog | ||
| The latest prepatch for the 2.2 Linux kernel tree is: | 2.2.27-rc2 | 2005-01-12 23:55 UTC | B | V | VI | Changelog | |
| The latest -mm patch to the stable Linux kernels is: | 2.6.28-rc2-mm1 | 2008-10-29 06:29 UTC | V | VI |
F = full source, B = patch baseline, V = view patch,
VI = view incremental, C = current changesets
Changelogs are provided by the kernel authors directly. Please
don't write the webmaster about them.
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September 19, 2008: mirrors.kernel.org has been flipped over to using our new GeoDNS based bind server (named-geodns). This means that, at the dns query level, our servers will attempt to direct you to the nearest / fastest kernel.org mirror for your request. This means that you no longer have to use mirrors.us.kernel.org or mirrors.eu.kernel.org to generally route you to the right place. This does mean a change to mirrors.kernel.org no longer explicitly pointing at mirrors.us.kernel.org. Additional information on named-geodns will be forth coming, check back here for an addendum soon.
March 24, 2008: After far too long of a bringup, mirrors.eu.kernel.org is now available. Again thanks to to Hewlett-Packard, ISC and Umeå Universitet, we now have a full complement of mirror servers in Amsterdam and Umeå.
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Jun 30, 2007: European servers! Thanks to Hewlett-Packard, ISC and Umeå Universitet, we are introducing new kernel.org servers at ISC in Amsterdam and Umeå Universitet, Sweden. These servers are available as a round-robin as www.eu.kernel.org, ftp.eu.kernel.org, and rsync.eu.kernel.org.
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We hope to have Geo- or BGP-based IP directing in the future, and hope to soon provide additional services in Europe.
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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.
Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher), today Linux also runs on (at least) the Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS, Renesas M32R, Atmel AVR32, Renesas H8/300, NEC V850, Tensilica Xtensa, and Analog Devices Blackfin architectures; for many of these architectures in both 32- and 64-bit variants.
Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the GNU C compiler (gcc) (part of The GNU Compiler Collection, GCC). Linux has also been ported to a number of architectures without a PMMU, although functionality is then obviously somewhat limited. See the µClinux project for more info.
If you're new to Linux, you don't want to download the kernel, which is just a component in a working Linux system. Instead, you want what is called a distribution of Linux, which is a complete Linux system. There are numerous distributions available for download on the Internet as well as for purchase from various vendors; some are general-purpose, and some are optimized for specific uses. We currently have mirrors of several distributions available at mirrors.kernel.org, as well as a small collection of special-purpose distributions at http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/.
Note, however, that most distributions are very large (several gigabytes), so unless you have a fast Internet link you may want to save yourself some hassle and purchase a CD-ROM with a distribution; such CD-ROMs are available from a number of vendors.
The Linux Installation HOWTO has more information how to set up your first Linux system.
There is much information about Linux on the web.
Please see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/reporting-bugs.html if you want to report a Linux kernel bug. Bug reports sent to the kernel.org administrators will be ignored.
There is now a bugzilla setup at bugzilla.kernel.org. Currently this is for reporting kernel version 2.6 bugs only.
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Although there is no official archive site, unofficial archives of the list can be found at:
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See http://git.kernel.org/ for a list of git repositories on kernel.org.
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