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Note: The column MBR (Master Boot Record) refers to whether or not the boot loader can be stored in the first sector of a mass storage device. The column VBR (Volume Boot Record) refers to the ability of the boot loader to be stored in the first sector of any partition on a mass storage device.
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).
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 .
www.gnu.org /software /zebra / Zebra is a routing software package that provides TCP/IP based routing services with routing protocols support such as RIP , OSPF and BGP . Zebra also supports BGP Route Reflector and Route Server behavior.
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.
The Linux kernel is a free and open source, [12]: 4 UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds in 1991 and was soon adopted as the kernel for the GNU operating system (OS) which was created to be a free replacement for Unix.
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]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 December 2024. Family of Unix-like operating systems This article is about the family of operating systems. For the kernel, see Linux kernel. For other uses, see Linux (disambiguation). Operating system Linux Tux the penguin, the mascot of Linux Developer Community contributors, Linus Torvalds Written ...