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internetnews.com: From BitKeeper to Latest Linux Kernel

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Jun 14, 2005

“After six release candidates and a public spat in the open
source community over the use of a ‘non-free’ development tool, the
2.6.12 Linux kernel has been released. The new release sports
native support for virtualization and SELinux among its almost 36
MB of data.

“Unlike the main 2.6.x kernel releases by Linux creator Linus
Torvalds, someone else made the announcement about the latest
version…”

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Sean Michael Kerner

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