14 DAY TRIAL // Linus Torvalds has announced the immediate availability of the seventh Release Candidate in the 3.11 branch of the kernel.
Linux kernel 3.11 RC7 has arrived just on time to celebrate 22 years since Linux Torvalds sent the email that started it all.
Unlike other announcements he made before this one, Linus Torvalds used his Google+ account to post the news. He modified the email sent more than two decades ago to fit today's news.
“I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, even if it's big and professional) for 486+ AT clones and just about anything else out there under the sun. This has been brewing since april 1991, and is still not ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in Linux 3.11-rc7.”
“I originally ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), but others have taken over user space and things still seem to work. This implies that I'll get the final 3.11 release within a week, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)” reads the post on Google+.
Download Linux kernel 3.11 Release Candidate 7 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a beta version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.