Linux 2.6.0 Released! Wow, it’s like Christmas. I haven’t been this excited since FreeBSD 5.0 was released.
Linus Torvalds announcement is here for you to read. And of course, you can download the new kernel from kernel.org
Update 12/19/03:
There is a good summary article on Groklaw, and a more indepth article by Joseph Pranevich here.
Some of the things that I have really been looking forward to:
“Linux 2.6 will include improved 64-bit support on block devices that support it, even on 32-bit platforms such as i386. This allows for filesystems up to 16TB on common hardware.”
“Most fundamentally, the entirety of kernel-based security (powers of the super user under a UNIX-like operating system) has been modularized out to be one out of a potential number of alternate security modules. (At present however, the only offered security model is the default one and an example how to make your own.) As part of this change, all parts of the kernel have now been updated to use “capabilities” as the basis of fine-grained user access, rather than the old “superuser” system. Nearly all Linux systems will continue to have a “root” account which has complete access, but this allows for a Linux-like system to be created which does not have this underlying assumption.”