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Kernel Traffic #64 And The 2.4 Kernel TODO

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

sohp writes: "Alan Cox's summary writeup of the things remaining before 2.4 highlights Kernel Traffic #64. It's quite a long list -- I'm not holding my breath for 2.4 " Kernel Traffic is a pretty cool overview thing if you can't handle the burden of actually subscribing to the list itself ...

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  1. I'm not holding my breath for 2.4 by SurfsUp · · Score: 4

    I'm not holding my breath for 2.4

    That's very wise ;-) If you've been running 2.3.99 you'll know there are still a few "issues" remaining, though these kinds of things hardly stand comparison with the bug list of a certain monopol^H^H^H^H^Hsoftware provider I could mention.

    On the whole though, when it is ready, and it's a lot closer than you'd think from the jobs list, it's going to be a real killer. Just a couple of things: Built-in pcmcia and USB; extensive support for video, including USB Webcams; vastly improved SMP support; a new virtual device filesystem that makes major/minor device numbers go away; bags more drivers for all kinds of things; many, many other goodies I didn't mention.

    I'll weigh in with a guesstimate of 3 months to 2.4.0 then another 2 months before you see 2.4.x start appearing in distributions. Very, very definiately worth waiting for, or just download it now and use it if you can't wait :-)

    Don't forget to put an entry into fstab for shm (shared memory) - this has now become part of vfs, and your distribution won't know about that.
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  2. A day at the races... by Cycon · · Score: 4
    Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the OSS racing track. Let's look at today's lineup:

    1) Linux 2.4
    2) Debian 2.2 (potato)
    3) Mozilla 1.0
    4) XFree86 4.0 (The real version)
    5) The multi-headed XFS/Reiserfs/ext3 beast
    6) KDE 2.0
    7) Evolution (The upcoming GNOME email app)
    8) (insert your favorite software-under-development here)

    Anyone willing to make a few bets as to which one we're going to see first? Hmmm, maybe this would make for a descent poll... (c:

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  3. Disgusting perfectionists. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4

    Excluding the "Done" and "Probably Post 2.4" sublists, they have exactly 95 issues to address. And even that number includes quite a few "Fixed but not yet merged" items.

    If it was Microsoft, they would have shipped it 62,905 fixes ago.

    C'mon, guys. If you raise customer expectations you're gonna wreck the industry. It's waaaay too expensive to ship shit that actually works.

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