Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Feb 2007 21:35 UTC, submitted by diegocg
After two months of development, Linux 2.6.20 has been released. This release includes two different virtualization implementations: KVM: full-virtualization capabilities using Intel/AMD virtualization extensions and a paravirtualization implementation usable by different hypervisors. Aditionally, 2.6.20 includes PS3 support, a fault injection debugging feature, UDP-lite support, better per-process IO accounting, relative atime, relocatable x86 kernel, some x86 microoptimizations, lockless radix-tree readside, shared pagetables for hugetbl, and many other things. Read the list of changes for details.
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2005-07-08
There are a lot of significant new features in this release! Two new virtualization interfaces (finally paravirt_ops made it in), a new architecture (Cell/PS3), and the lockless radix tree reads (for the dcache) should be just the ticket for scaling to 2048 CPUs and possibly beyond (they'll have to slow down and wait for the systems vendors to catch up ;-)
Basically, there's a lot of stuff in here that should scare the pants off the big UNIX guys (myself included, but I like to root for the underdog... too bad about the bears).