The Linux kernel is the world’s largest collaborative development project. Almost 3,000 individual contributors work together to create and maintain an operating system kernel that works on everything from wristwatches and mobile phones to mainframes, along with all the peripherals imaginable for each platform. Linux creator Linus Torvalds sits at the top of a loose hierarchy of kernel maintainers and acts as final arbiter for what does or does not get included. So how does one go about contributing a substantially new technology to the kernel? 

The 3.0.42, 3.4.10, and 3.5.3 stable updates are out with the usual pile of important fixes. There are some reports of Intel graphics problems with 3.0.42 and 3.4.10, so users may want to proceed carefully with those.

Six days after releasing the Linux 3.6-rc2 kernel, Linus has released the third test release of the forthcoming Linux 3.6...

Linux 3.0 will be maintained for at least one more year; Linux 3.4 will be promoted to long-term kernel status. Linux 3.5 will cease to be maintained once Linux 3.6.1 has been released...