Andrew Morton has < http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3183866977.html added > the experimental Ext4 filesystem to the kernel. Ext4 supports up to 1024 petabytes of storage and "extent" file writing.

In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, Linus Torvalds included some unusual language in the < http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Torvalds_talks_like_a_pirate/0,130061733,339271201,00.htm 2.6.18 release notes >.

Newsforge conducted an < http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/15/2224218&from=rss interview > with Linus Torvalds to get his response to a Business 2.0 < http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/21/technology/10dontmatter.biz2/index.htm article > that listed him as one of the top 10 people who don't matter, alongside Steve Ballmer and Jonathan Schwartz. Linus reveals that he is secretly a drug dealer, and comments on Steve Ballmer's chair-shaped shuriken of death.