New Kernel 2.4 Development Branch (-mjc)

Ivo writes: "kerneltrap is reporting: Michael Cohen announced to the lkml his intention to begin a new 2.4 development tree. The first release of his -mjc branch includes a number of performance enhancing patches, including Robert Love's preemptible kernel patch, Rick van Riel's reverse mapping patch and George Anzinger's real time scheduler patch. Michael says of this patch, "I feel that there's need for a rapidly developing '-ac [like]' tree, and so, here we go. Feel free to test it""

Comments

Re:Great, more fragmentation

[SumDeusExMachina]

but it seems like you want all the exotic new stuff to be already completed, stabilized, and integrated into the kernel. Without having to look at the different branches to see if they've already got it in place. Good luck, you'll need it.

That's why I got rid of Linux. They couldn't get their act together and get this done. FreeBSD already has a great VM and SoftUpdates, stable and working in production systems. The devleopment process is clearly labeled by "-RELEASE" (meaning "it's safe to use in production systems and has been throughly reviewed"), "-STABLE" (meaning that it should work fine, but it is rapidly changing and there could always be bugs that pop up) and "-CURRENT" (meaning "Use at your own risk"). Linux doesn't have any "stable" branch of development. They claim to be stable on even numbers, and have development on odds, but this simply isn't the case. Every new release of 2.4 is constantly changing and they even dropped a new VM in in a stable branch. So what the hell is the difference between 2.4 and 2.5 again? At least BSD get's reviewed before they're willing to portray it as "stable", the kind of honesty you won't find in the Linux community. With Linux, you have people just dropping new stuff in all over the place, and it results in really stupid things like total file corruption in a 2.4 stable release.

Re:Great, more fragmentation

[Ranger Rick]

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