Download Linux Kernel 2.5.74

Yesterday Linus Torvalds released a new Linux 2.5 kernel released† The main changes relate to network drivers, USB and PnP support. The changelog this time has a size of only 92KB and is here to watch. The release notes look like this:

Updates all over, the patch itself is big largely because of a MIPS/MIPS64 merge (and SH, for that matter).

Network driver updates, USB updates, PnP, SCTP, s390, you name it. See the changelog for more details.

Linus[break]On Linux Today read we can expect a first version of the coveted 2.6 series at the latest next week. It is maintained by Torvalds and Andrew Morton:
[/break]”‘I’m planning on starting the so-called ‘pre-2.6’ series in early July, and that is kind of a beta series,” Torvalds said Wednesday in an interview. He and Andrew Morton, the programmer who will maintain the 2.6 version, “are talking about starting a pre-2.6 series next week,” Torvalds said.