Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, 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 kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
IDE support was added for JMicron 20363, and UDMA is supported on ICH7. A new protection against a kind of kernel bug exploitation was added (mmap_min_addr). All fixes from 2.4.35.5 are included.
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