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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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README
1 | - Linux kernel release 2.6.xx | |
1 | + Linux kernel release 2.6.xx <http://kernel.org> | |
2 | 2 | |
3 | 3 | These are the release notes for Linux version 2.6. Read them carefully, |
4 | 4 | as they tell you what this is all about, explain how to install the |
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6 | 6 | |
7 | 7 | WHAT IS LINUX? |
8 | 8 | |
9 | - Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with | |
10 | - assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. | |
11 | - It aims towards POSIX compliance. | |
9 | + Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by | |
10 | + Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across | |
11 | + the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. | |
12 | 12 | |
13 | - It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged | |
14 | - Unix, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, | |
15 | - demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory | |
16 | - management and TCP/IP networking. | |
13 | + It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix, | |
14 | + including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand | |
15 | + loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, | |
16 | + and multistack networking including IPv4 and IPv6. | |
17 | 17 | |
18 | 18 | It is distributed under the GNU General Public License - see the |
19 | 19 | accompanying COPYING file for more details. |
20 | 20 | |
21 | 21 | ON WHAT HARDWARE DOES IT RUN? |
22 | 22 | |
23 | - Linux was first developed for 386/486-based PCs. These days it also | |
24 | - runs on ARMs, DEC Alphas, SUN Sparcs, M68000 machines (like Atari and | |
25 | - Amiga), MIPS and PowerPC, and others. | |
23 | + Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher), | |
24 | + today Linux also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and | |
25 | + UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, | |
26 | + IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS, | |
27 | + and Renesas M32R architectures. | |
28 | + | |
29 | + Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures | |
30 | + as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the | |
31 | + GNU C compiler (gcc) (part of The GNU Compiler Collection, GCC). Linux has | |
32 | + also been ported to a number of architectures without a PMMU, although | |
33 | + functionality is then obviously somewhat limited. | |
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27 | 35 | DOCUMENTATION: |
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