![]() A monolithic kernel is an operating system architecture where the entire operating system is working in kernel space. Linux/UNIX Based Systems have Monolithic Kernel. The kernel is one of the first programs loaded on startup (after the bootloader) and henceforth handles the rest of startup as well as memory, peripherals, and input/output (I/O) requests from software, translating them into data-processing instructions for the central processing unit. CPU & cache usage, file systems, and network sockets. I/O, memory, cryptography) via device drivers, arbitrates conflicts between processes concerning such resources, and optimizes the utilization of common resources e.g. Named Linux for Workgroups after the 20 years of Windows 3.A full kernel controls all hardware resources (e.g. Jiří Slabý (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman)ġ1th LTS release, named Suicidal Squirrel Ĭanonical provided extended support until August 2014. Named One Giant Leap for Frogkind ( NASA LADEE launch photo) Used in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ģ.16.1 was named Museum of Fishiegoodies ġ2th LTS release, named Shuffling Zombie Juror Ĭanonical provided extended support until April 2016. Canonical provided extended support until April 2016. Maintained until October 2014, then May 2016 to June 2020 ġ3th LTS release. Starting with 3.18.140, this version will no longer be maintained on, but on AOSPīen Hutchings (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) Hartman stated that he will release irregular updates to the 3.18 tree. Greg Kroah-Hartman (formerly Sasha Levin ) (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman)ġ4th LTS release, named Diseased Newt Named "Hurr durr I'ma sheep" (Internet poll) Sasha Levin (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) ġ5th LTS release. Used in Ubuntu 16.04 LTSĬanonical provided extended support until July 2016. As the first kernel selected for Super Long Term Support (SLTS), the Civil Infrastructure Platform will provide support until at least 2026, possibly until 2036. Canonical provided extended support until April 2021. Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin (until February 2022 )ġ6th LTS release, used in Slackware 14.2. ![]() ![]() Older version, yet still maintained: 4.14Ĥ.10-rc5 was named Anniversary Edition ġ7th LTS release. RHEL 8.x (Redhat ignores LTS-Kernel, own kernel-backports) Second SLTS release (which CIP is planning to support until January 2029), and first with ARM64 support. Older version, yet still maintained: 4.19ġ9th LTS release. io_uring API, a new way to do asynchronous I/O (AIO), the older API/interface "aio" had problems and performance issues.Older version, yet still maintained: 5.10Ģ1st LTS release used in Debian 11 "Bullseye" ģrd SLTS release (which CIP is planning to support until January 2031) Ģ0th LTS release, used in Ubuntu 20.04 LTSĥ.4-rc5 is named Kleptomaniac Octopus Used in RHEL 9.x and derivatives (Redhat ignores LTS-Kernel, own kernel-backports) and SLE 15 SP4/ openSUSE Leap 15.4 Introduce process_mrelease(2) system call.Migrate memory pages to persistent memory in lieu of discard.Older version, yet still maintained: 5.15 Memory folios infrastructure for a faster memory management.New futex_waitv() system call for faster game performance.Mitigate straight-line speculation attacks.Support giving names to anonymous memory.New Real-Time Linux Analysis (RTLA) tool.Stricter memcpy() compile-time bounds checking.Headers rearchitecturing preparations for faster compilation times.fprobe, for probing multiple functions with a single probe handler.Support for Indirect Branch Tracking on Intel CPUs.Introduce Intel In-Field Scan driver to run targeted low level diagnostics outside of the CPU's architectural error detection capabilities.Armv9 Scalable Matrix Extension support.More secure encrypted virtualization with AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX.
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