That's nice, but its not really news...
by
Nailer
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· Score: 5, Interesting
There's so many interesting userspace apps slashdot could write about. Unless the kernel has some new feature or fixes a major secutiy hole, I personally don't see how interesting each minor release is. Slashdot isn't freshmeat.
If/. is going to write about apps, why not focus on the new and clever ones - like
* MPlayer allowing us to play WMVs under out OS of choice
* Xine, finally maturing into a solid high quality DVD player
* Partimage providng a useful and open source disk imaging system
* Ximian's setup tools beta making an X config tool that doesn't suck
OI don't have anything against the kernel, but we all know there's always goiung to be a new kernel every couple of weeks. There's so many interesting userspace Open Source projects we could be hearing about.
After all, isn't the point of an OS to run *apps*?
I'll throw in my own plug, then!
by
jd
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· Score: 5, Interesting
For those wanting to try the pre-emptible kernel patch, the HP scheduler-plugin, compressed memory hardware, STP, XFS, JFS, Linux on an old VMS box, any one of a number of VME crates, serial-based network controllers, or the various latency clean-ups, then you could always try the FOLK kernel seris. FOLK 2.3.0 is stable (gasp!) and provides more today than the first fifty 2.5.x kernels are likely to.
(And by the time those come out, FOLK will be comparable to Linux 2.7.0 in terms of features & performance.)
-- It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
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There's so many interesting userspace apps slashdot could write about. Unless the kernel has some new feature or fixes a major secutiy hole, I personally don't see how interesting each minor release is. Slashdot isn't freshmeat.
/. is going to write about apps, why not focus on the new and clever ones - like
If
* MPlayer allowing us to play WMVs under out OS of choice
* Xine, finally maturing into a solid high quality DVD player
* Partimage providng a useful and open source disk imaging system
* Ximian's setup tools beta making an X config tool that doesn't suck
OI don't have anything against the kernel, but we all know there's always goiung to be a new kernel every couple of weeks. There's so many interesting userspace Open Source projects we could be hearing about.
After all, isn't the point of an OS to run *apps*?
(And by the time those come out, FOLK will be comparable to Linux 2.7.0 in terms of features & performance.)
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)