Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263696AbTH1Cjl (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:39:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263690AbTH1Cjk (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:39:40 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:49670 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263696AbTH1Cjh (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:39:37 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: linux-2.4.22 released Date: 28 Aug 2003 02:31:04 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <200308270610.h7R6Ajwt000277@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1062037864 26458 192.168.12.62 (28 Aug 2003 02:31:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1590 Lines: 30 In article <200308270610.h7R6Ajwt000277@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>, John Bradford wrote: | Yes, of course, but the majority of desktop, workstations and server | machines run whatever kernel their distribution supplies. | | Within a year, a lot of distributions will start offering both 2.4 and | 2.6. The only reason to run the distribution's 2.4 kernel will be if | the 2.6 one doesn't work on the user's hardware. In that case, we | will want to add support to/fix 2.6 as a priority, rather than adding | support to 2.4. | The "must have" feature of 2.4 was iptables. You simply can't do as good a firwall or network device without stateful sockets. Other than device drivers the kicker of 2.6 is crypto. If you need the features you really will go. Latency in 2.4 seems better, at least for some of the stuff I use, and I see the new scheduler and NPTL are in the latest Redhat 2.4, so those are not compelling for most people. I would still like to see all the responsiveness features, VM, low latency, preempt current. The O(1) scheduler is still getting better daily in 2.6, about 2.4.25 that should be ready. Then when what we have is working as well as it can, we can add features. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/