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yes guys...a highly awaited thing in Linux community has arrived. Linux Kernel 2.6 is here :D
Web is full with articles about it. I will be upgrading mine from test11 to the stable one tonight just cos of its sheer speed. what are you waiting for ;)
If you people read and find more features do tell me and i will add to the list.
CNET Article
Web is full with articles about it. I will be upgrading mine from test11 to the stable one tonight just cos of its sheer speed. what are you waiting for ;)
Key Features
- support for new hardware architectures, including the latest AMD 64-bit Opteron CPUs and PowerPC 64 CPUs
- ability to run on servers with upto 32 processors.
- true asynchronous I/O for performance improvements in enterprise applications, including databases
- Improved Kernel Preemption\x{2014}latency of the kernel is greatly reduced and the resulting system response is greatly increased.
- 0(1) Scheduler\x{2014}The Linux 2.6 kernel sorts executable actions by priority, and allows real-time processes to share one queue. This allows for greater real-time performance with few runable processes.
- improved file-system performance, four journaling file systems for real-time data backup and recovery capabilities
- improved threading support for the new Posix threads library, with the ability to handle up to hundreds of thousands of threads, as well as full Posix compliance
- enhanced high-bandwidth networking support, with TCP segmentation offload support and zero-copy network file system support
- support for USB 2.0
- NTFS writing capabilities
A negative point
2.6 can handle upto 24GB of memory while 2.4 could handle upto 32GB of memory. (oh well they will work on that ;) )
- support for new hardware architectures, including the latest AMD 64-bit Opteron CPUs and PowerPC 64 CPUs
- ability to run on servers with upto 32 processors.
- true asynchronous I/O for performance improvements in enterprise applications, including databases
- Improved Kernel Preemption\x{2014}latency of the kernel is greatly reduced and the resulting system response is greatly increased.
- 0(1) Scheduler\x{2014}The Linux 2.6 kernel sorts executable actions by priority, and allows real-time processes to share one queue. This allows for greater real-time performance with few runable processes.
- improved file-system performance, four journaling file systems for real-time data backup and recovery capabilities
- improved threading support for the new Posix threads library, with the ability to handle up to hundreds of thousands of threads, as well as full Posix compliance
- enhanced high-bandwidth networking support, with TCP segmentation offload support and zero-copy network file system support
- support for USB 2.0
- NTFS writing capabilities
A negative point
2.6 can handle upto 24GB of memory while 2.4 could handle upto 32GB of memory. (oh well they will work on that ;) )
CNET Article
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