Download Linux Kernel 2.6.20

Linus Torvalds has released yet another Linux Kernel packed with new features, such as KVM and a fault injection debugging feature. The version number has arrived at 2.6.20 and as usual the full list of changes is up Kernel.org to read. In addition, you can Kernel Newbies go for a clear description of all the changes that have been made, which they summarize as follows:

Brief overview:

2.6.20 makes linux join to the virtualization trends. This release adds two virtualization implementations: A full-virtualization implementation that uses Intel/AMD hardware virtualization capabilities called KVM and a paravirtualization implementation that can be used by different hypervisors (Rusty’s lguest; Xen and Vmware in the future, etc),. But this release also adds initial Sony Playstation 3 support, a fault injection debugging featureUDP-lite support, better per-process IO accounting, relative atime, support for using swap files for suspend users, relocatable x86 kernel support for kdump users, small microoptimizations in x86 (sleazy FPU, regparm, support for the Processor Data Area, optimizations for the Core 2 platform), a generic HID layer, DEEPNAP power savings for PPC970, lockless radix-tree readside, shared pagetables for hugetbl, ARM support for the AT91 and iop13xx processors, full NAT for nf_conntrack and many other things.