[PATCH] README updated

Replace old information with newer from kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] README updated
Replace old information with newer from kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Xose Vazquez Perez · Linus Torvalds
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README
-	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 @@
  
 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:
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
5	5
6	6
...	...	@@ -6,23 +6,31 @@
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.
26	34
27	35	DOCUMENTATION:
28	36