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What’s new in the Linux kernel

By Steven Vaughan-NicholsOriginally published on Sept. 13, 2020, on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Enterprise.nxt, publishing insights about the future of technology.After all these years, the core developers of Linux keep innovating. Linux runs pretty much everything: all 500 of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers; most of the public cloud, even on Microsoft Azure; and 74 percent of smartphones.

As Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer and writer, said in his annual Linux Kernel Report, the “latest stable kernel is on its way to becoming part of the Android generic system image, then they will track the stable updates.

Since day one, if you wanted to develop in the Linux kernel, or anything that runs close to it, you had to do it in C. Indeed, you could argue Linux is the reason why C remains a popular language.

Looking ahead, it’s clear that Rust will soon be playing a major role in both Linux kernel and distribution development.