Linus Torvalds has released the sixth weekly test release of the upcoming kernel. Linux 5.3. This release is timed to coincide with the 28th anniversary of the release of the original first version of the kernel of the then new OS.
Torvalds paraphrased his first message on this topic for the announcement. It looks like this:
“I make a (free) operating system (more than just a hobby) for 486 AT clones and many other hardware solutions. This has been brewing for the past 28 years and is still not done. I would like to get feedback on any bugs introduced in this release (or older bugs for that matter),” the developer wrote.
The bulk of patch 5.3-rc6 consists of driver updates for network devices. However, there are other fixes as well. Torvalds noted that the release of RC8 is not ruled out. As for the stable release, the release Linux 5.3 is expected in two or three weeks.
As a reminder, Torvalds released the first version, version 0.0.1, on August 25, 1991, after five months of development. The first public version of the kernel contained approximately 10 lines of source code and took up 62 KB in compressed form. The modern kernel Linux contains over 26 million lines of code.
As noted, the approximate development of such a project from scratch would cost from 1 to 3 billion dollars.
Source: 3dnews.ru
