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

PalmOS -mj branch

[Anonymous Coward]

I knew it had to happen one day! First the PalmOS has the -mj branch, and now linux does, too. True, we have the -ac branch and palm doesn't, but I'm still waiting for the Palm -cs branch to be ported over to linux.

Re:Great, more fragmentation

[Ami Ganguli]

I don't see how any of this is relavent. What you're complaining about is that:

• The packaged kernel doesn't have all the latest features and drivers.
• Some drivers have bugs.

This is of course true. That will be true of any system. Obviously you're going to give up something in the trade-off between "easy to use and stable" vs. "bleeding edge".

your contention that the distributions are out-of-the-box solutions is just plain wrong.

No it's not. Distributions are the out-of-the-box solution. Your problem is that you aren't satisfied with the out-of-the-box solution. Would you have faired better with one of the BSDs? Do they even have XFS?

The *real* question is:

[soupforare]

Will this new dev patch increase performance when playing Linux Quake on my 486DX/2??