{"id":46,"date":"2007-02-05T15:42:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T00:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/05\/the-real-big-event\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T15:43:26","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T00:43:26","slug":"the-real-big-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/05\/the-real-big-event\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Real&#8217; Big Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For linux fans the &#8216;Real&#8217; Big Event yesterday wasn&#8217;t the superbowl, but the latest Linux kernel relase (2.6.20). This release includes 2 different virtualization implementations, <a href=\"http:\/\/kvm.sourceforge.net\/\">KVM<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/194543\">paravirtualization<\/a> as well as PS3 support.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight, though, <em>has<\/em> to be Linus Torvalds&#8217; post on the subject.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Date<\/strong>\tSun, 4 Feb 2007 11:10:36 -0800 (PST)<br \/>\n<strong> From<\/strong>\tLinus Torvalds &lt;&gt;<br \/>\n<strong> Subject<\/strong>\tSuper Kernel Sunday!<br \/>\nIn a widely anticipated move, Linux &#8220;headcase&#8221; Torvalds today announced<br \/>\nthe immediate availability of the most advanced Linux kernel to date,<br \/>\nversion 2.6.20.<\/p>\n<p>Before downloading the actual new kernel, most avid kernel hackers have<br \/>\nbeen involved in a 2-hour pre-kernel-compilation count-down, with some<br \/>\neven spending the preceding week doing typing exercises and reciting PI<br \/>\nto a thousand decimal places.<\/p>\n<p>The half-time entertainment is provided by randomly inserted trivial<br \/>\nsyntax errors that nerds are expected to fix at home before completing<br \/>\nthe compile, but most people actually seem to mostly enjoy watching the<br \/>\ncompile warnings, sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, scroll past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.org\/lkml\/2007\/2\/4\/119\">full text of Linus&#8217; announcement can be seen<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.org\/\">lkml.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For linux fans the &#8216;Real&#8217; Big Event yesterday wasn&#8217;t the superbowl, but the latest Linux kernel relase (2.6.20). This release includes 2 different virtualization implementations, KVM and paravirtualization as well as PS3 support. The highlight, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[156,155],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-os","tag-linux","tag-os"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxT7i-K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}