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It was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in 2014, in kernel version 3.18. [4] [5] It was improved in version 4.0, bringing improvements necessary for e.g. the overlay2 storage driver in Docker. [6] While most Live CD linux distributions used Aufs as of November 2016, Slackware used overlayfs for its live CD. [7]
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.
BOSS Linux was developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing with the aim of promoting the adoption of free and open-source software throughout India. As a vital deliverable software of the National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software, it has an enhanced desktop environment that includes support for various Indian language and instructional software.
Debian Unstable, known as "Sid", contains all the latest packages as soon as they are available, and follows a rolling-release model. [6]Once a package has been in Debian Unstable for 2-10 days (depending on the urgency of the upload), doesn't introduce critical bugs and doesn't break other packages (among other conditions), it is included in Debian Testing, also known as "next-stable".
Versions 2.6.16 and 2.6.27 of the Linux kernel were unofficially given long-term support (LTS), [302] before a 2011 working group in the Linux Foundation started a formal long-term support initiative.
Ubuntu releases are also given code names, using an adjective and an animal with the same first letter – an alliteration, e.g., "Dapper Drake".With the exception of the first two releases, code names are in alphabetical order, and except for the first three releases, the first letters are sequential, allowing a quick determination of which release is newer.
Many improvements to the Anaconda installer; [34] among these features, it now supports resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS file systems, and can create and install Fedora to encrypted file systems. Firefox 3.0 beta 5 is included in this release, and the 3.0 package was released as an update the same day as the general release.
Fedora Linux [7] is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project. It was originally developed in 2003 as a continuation of the Red Hat Linux project. It contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be on the leading edge of open-source technologies.