Linus Torvalds Announces the Sixth Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Release Candidate | Linux Today

Linus Torvalds Announces the Sixth Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Release Candidate

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Marius Nestor
Dec 20, 2015

Linux kernel 4.4 LTS RC6 is yet another quiet, small and fairly normal development milestone that consists of a little over 60% drivers updates, 16% core networking improvements, 13% hardware architecture fixes, and the rest of 10% is split among filesystems updates, documentation enhancements, header files, and various other under-the-hood improvements.

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Marius Nestor

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