Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750762AbWANS4d (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:56:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750766AbWANS4d (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:56:33 -0500 Received: from uproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.92.205]:2837 "EHLO uproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750762AbWANS4d (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:56:33 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:content-type; b=bsEMHoNnv5mlPtKJ+VZ1vf8qrQU7J1erQwpTbKFKcjfnRiUkRzU6I/Gph1i5q3u057VKReVvDu6h8P3Imyg1UCnJ2E+pQa4O49vQobhbOlTWn/9JrMMRskyaPasM3pgqB7M9ukea1V4tkfgo518uZWvW7magcpJs9N6CL1tGKHI= Message-ID: <43C9495C.6080200@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:56:28 +0100 From: Xose Vazquez Perez User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH] README updated Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------040603070902090703050107" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3138 Lines: 76 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040603070902090703050107 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Replace old information with newer from kernel.org -- Politicos de mierda, yo no soy un terrorista. --------------040603070902090703050107 Content-Type: text/x-patch; name="README.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="README.diff" diff -Nuar a/README b/README --- a/README 2006-01-14 14:55:37.000000000 +0100 +++ b/README 2006-01-14 19:52:29.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - Linux kernel release 2.6.xx + Linux kernel release 2.6.xx 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. - - 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. + 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 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: --------------040603070902090703050107-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/