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When Linux 2.0 came out in 1997, it brought with it support for many different CPUs, including Alpha, x86, Mips, PowerPC, SPARC, and Motorola 68000 processors. It also added a bundle of hardware support for different SCSI and IDE controllers, new Ethernet controllers, and, probably most significant, support for multiprocessing servers -- up to 16-way symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems. Java support and a ton of different
networking doodads (e.g., I
P tunneling and ISDN support) are also included in this release. As this article went to press, version 2.1 was in beta testing. This version improves support for Alpha and adds IPv6 support.
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