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GRUB Legacy: GNU Project: 8 May 2005: GPL-2.0-or-later: No cost: ... Current version Initial release date Latest release date License Cost Website / documentation
GNU Classpath is a free software implementation of the standard class library for the Java programming language. Most classes from J2SE 1.4 and 5.0 are implemented. Classpath can thus be used to run Java-based applications. GNU Classpath is a part of the GNU Project.
The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project implementation of the C standard library. It provides a wrapper around the system calls of the Linux kernel and other kernels for application use. Despite its name, it now also directly supports C++ (and, indirectly, other programming languages).
The default bootstrap loader is GNU GRUB version 2, though the package name is simply grub, while version 1 was renamed to grub-legacy. This conflicts with distros (e.g., Fedora Linux), where grub version 2 is named grub2. The default desktop may be chosen from the DVD boot menu among GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce and LXDE, and from special disc 1 CDs.
Devuan maintains a modified version of the Debian expert text installer, which has the ability to install only free software if the user chooses, while the live desktop image also uses a custom graphical installer from Refracta, a derivative of Devuan. [16] Devuan 3.0 Beowulf was released on June 3, 2020, based on Debian 10.4.
Version Original release date Last release Maintainer EOL Prominent features Notes 6.13 TBD: 6.13-rc3 [3] Linus Torvalds: 6.12: 17 November 2024 [4] 6.12.5 [5] Linus Torvalds: Real-time support for x86/x86_64, RISC-V, and ARM64 [6] Userspace scheduler extensions support [7] QR codes for DRM panic messages [6] 25th LTS release [8]
Version 0.11, released in December 1991, was the first version to be self-hosted; compiled on a computer running the Linux kernel. When Torvalds released version 0.12 in February 1992, he adopted the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) over his previous self-drafted license, which had not permitted commercial redistribution. [20]
[8] [9] PowerPC had a single release with version 0.2.0 in 2004, [10] with SPARC also having one for version 0.4.0 in 2007. [ 11 ] If a PXE boot requires HTTP or TFTP , at least 1GB of memory will be needed for loading a required file for those into memory.