[TriLUG] the new kernel's here! the new kernel's here!

Jeremy Katz katzj at linuxpower.org
Fri Nov 23 17:10:20 EST 2001


On Friday, November 23 2001, Jon Carnes said:
> On Friday 23 November 2001 07:37, you wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 03:48:33AM -0500, rpjday spoke thusly:
> > > both 2.4.15 and 2.5.0 are now available at www.kernel.org.
> >
> > and thanks to the miracle of rsync, you can get your copy from
> > mirrors.trilug.org (if you have a membership number...)
> >
> > Did I mention that we mirror kernel 2.2, 2.4, and now 2.5 automagically?
> Does anyone have the low-down on the new 2.5 kernel?  What's latest and 
> greatest?  What is the aim of the 2.5 tree (besides becoming a stable 2.6)?

Increased scalability, better device support, rewriting of some
subsystems.  Those are probably all on the list ;)  I'm sure we'll see
large changes and have the 2.5 series take twice as long as everyone
wants it to.

Of course, based on the patches Al Viro has sent to lkml this weekend,
I'd probably steer clear of 2.4.15/2.5.0 right now. 

Jeremy 

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