Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, 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 kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version fixes local security issues
CVE-2008-1375 and CVE-2008-1669. Users of 2.4 are
encouraged to upgrade (or to apply the fixes).
