New Linux kernel released

By Alun Williams

Posted on 11 Jul 2003 at 11:47

A new Linux kernel has been released, version 2.5.75 to be precise.

Slashdot reports that this will be the last 2.5.x release, with Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton beginning work on a 2.6-pre series. The changes in this release mostly involve maintenance bug fixes and performance tweaks, but you can read the full change log here.

You can FTP the patch from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/patch-2.5.75.bz2 and review all 2.5 changes at www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.5/index.html

What is colloquially known as a Linux system actually largely consists of GNU (GNU's Not Unix - yes, a recursive acronym) software built around this Linux kernel. This is the central core of the operating system with which other sub-systems communicate, for example the user interface or image editing software.