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Faster kernel builds and with lower peak memory use. Removed support for the Intel ICC compiler. 6.2 19 February 2023 [1] 6.2.16 [10] 17 May 2023 [31] Intel Arc drivers are now deemed "stable" and on by default. Initial FOSS support for NVIDIA GeForce 30 Series. But performance is poor for now. Support for Apple's M1
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.
A kernel is a component of a computer operating system. [1] A comparison of system kernels can provide insight into the design and architectural choices made by the developers of particular operating systems.
Linux kernel 3.1.0; Inclusion of GNOME 3.2.1 desktop; Updated to latest KDE Software Compilation 4.7.2; GRUB2 became the default boot-loader; Ext4 driver used for Ext3 and Ext2 file systems; HAL daemon removed in favour of udisks, upower, and libudev; Unification of the user interfaces for all problem reporting programs and mechanisms
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop uses Linux kernel 5.17 for newer hardware and a rolling HWE (hardware enablement) kernel based on version 5.15 for other hardware; Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server uses version 5.15, while Ubuntu Cloud and Ubuntu for IoT use an optimized kernel based on version 5.15. It updates Python to 3.10 and Ruby to 3.0. [274]
The actual kernel depends on the individual device. [193] Android's variant of the Linux kernel has further architectural changes that are implemented by Google outside the typical Linux kernel development cycle, such as the inclusion of components like device trees, ashmem, ION, and different out of memory (OOM) handling.
This expanded API is what is called Kernel Mode-setting (KMS) and the drivers which implement it are often referred to as KMS drivers. In March 2009, KMS was merged into the Linux kernel version 2.6.29, [30] [143] along with KMS support for the i915 driver. [144] The KMS API has been exposed to user space programs since libdrm 2.4.3. [145]
Includes Restricted Drivers Manager for the first time. [37] New kubuntu-restricted-extras package is available for download from the repositories. 8.04& 2008-04-24 [38] Hardy Heron 2009-10 2.6.24 [39] It has two versions: KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.0 (With community support only). This version intends to provide feature parity with GNOME-based Ubuntu. [40]