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| author | Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> | 2006-01-14 19:56:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-16 23:26:01 -0800 |
| commit | 4f4e2dc3ce46d279a311e5250ac3cbd394279c31 (patch) | |
| tree | 65a69cef38f5a682a2f7249d7144d4be9a2b2bc1 /README | |
| parent | a462e9ff524f33da3e504fc71b8dd2b7584e4f28 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] README updated
Replace old information with newer from kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - Linux kernel release 2.6.xx + Linux kernel release 2.6.xx <http://kernel.org> These are the release notes for Linux version 2.6. Read them carefully, as they tell you what this is all about, explain how to install the @@ -6,23 +6,31 @@ kernel, and what to do if something goes wrong. WHAT IS LINUX? - Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with - assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. - It aims towards POSIX compliance. + Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by + Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across + the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. - It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged - Unix, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, - demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory - management and TCP/IP networking. + It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix, + including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand + loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, + and multistack networking including IPv4 and IPv6. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License - see the accompanying COPYING file for more details. ON WHAT HARDWARE DOES IT RUN? - Linux was first developed for 386/486-based PCs. These days it also - runs on ARMs, DEC Alphas, SUN Sparcs, M68000 machines (like Atari and - Amiga), MIPS and PowerPC, and others. + Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher), + today Linux also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and + UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, + IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS, + and Renesas M32R architectures. + + Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures + as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the + GNU C compiler (gcc) (part of The GNU Compiler Collection, GCC). Linux has + also been ported to a number of architectures without a PMMU, although + functionality is then obviously somewhat limited. DOCUMENTATION: |