Last week, Linux turned 31 years old. As time goes. Although Torvalds does not mention it, more than three decades ago he started a final year project in which the goal was to create an operating system that could run on any computer. The result is well known: he is everywhere and the only section in which he does not dominate is in computers. But the news this week is that He launched Linux 6.0-rc3.
And in this sense everything has been very normal. It's been so common that you haven't even mentioned that Linux 6.0-rc3 has increased in size in a week than they usually do. He also sent a simple email that doesn't have much of a story, but hey, boring also means no problemsAnd that's the most positive part.
Linux 6.0-rc3 does not increase its size
As some have already realized, last week was an anniversary week: 31 years since the announcement of the original development of Linux. How time flies.
But this isn't that kind of historical email – it's just the weekly RC release announcement, and things seem pretty normal. We have various fixes all over the tree, in all the usual places: drivers (network, fbdev, drm), architectures (a bit of everything: x86, loongarch, arm64, parisc, s390, and RISC-V), filesystems (mainly btrfs and cifs, minor stuff elsewhere), and the core code (network, vm, vfs, and cgroup).
At this point, if we had to bet we would bet that Linux 6.0 will arrive on October 2 after the usual 7 Release Candidates, but everything can change from one week to another. It's hardly Ubuntu kernel version 22.10, and it would be even more so if they had to push it back a week. Therefore, and as always, Ubuntu users who want to install it when the time comes will have to do it on their own with tools like Mainline.