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Version Original release date Last release Maintainer EOL Prominent features Notes 6.13 TBD: 6.13-rc7 [3] Linus Torvalds: 6.12: 17 November 2024 [4] 6.13 [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]
Fedora 33 Workstation Edition was the first version of the operating system to default to using Btrfs as its default file system, and replacement of a swap partition with zram. [87] It featured version 3.38 of the GNOME desktop environment, and Linux kernel 5.8.15. For the first time since version 7, Fedora defaulted to a slideshow background ...
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.
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.
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 final minor update, called a "point release", is version 9.13, [221] released on 18 July 2020; 4 years ago (). Major upgrades include the Linux kernel going from version 3.16 to 4.9, GNOME desktop version going from 3.14 to 3.22, KDE Plasma 4 was upgraded to Plasma 5 , LibreOffice 4.3 upgraded to 5.2 and Qt upgraded from 4.8 to 5.7.
It also updates the Linux kernel to version 2.6.34. [60] openSUSE 11.4 was finished on 3 March 2011, and released on 10 March 2011. It includes Plasma 4.6.0, GNOME 2.32.1, Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta 12, and switched from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice 3.3.1. It updates the Linux kernel to version 2.6.37. [62]
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]