Torvalds officially releases Linux 3.0
Linux 3.0 is official here, but users expecting a swathe of fundamental changes to the kernel will find little to surprise them as the project celebrates its twentieth birthday.
Announced by Linux founder Linus Torvalds - on his Google+ profile, oddly enough - Linux 3.0 was expected to be earlier this month, but the discovery of a small bug in pathname lookups by Hugh Dickins lead to some last-minute changes being required.
While the version number takes a leap, Linux 3.0 isn't all that new: in reality, it's little more than 2.6.40 with a revamped numbering scheme. Now, Linux kernels - which form the heart of the GNU/Linux open-source operating system - will be identified with two numbers, rather than three.
