12/18/2003 — Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton have released the final 2.6.0 Linux production kernel, available for download from www.kernel.org.

"The 2.6 kernel represents the collective work of many thousands of top developers around the world -- bringing truly enterprise-ready capabilities to Linux", said Markus Rex, Vice President, Research and Development, SUSE Linux. "Business users will be able to take full advantage of many enhanced capabilities with the launch of solutions based on the 2.6 in 2004."

A list of new features in kernel 2.6 can be found here.

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