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Linux Kernel 2.4.20 Released

Posted by timothy on from the jamie-has-the-munchies dept.

punkmac writes "It's that time again to do the thing we all love to do, compile your shiny new kernel. This time its 2.4.20. The changelog can be found at the usual places, and please use a mirror for all your downloads"

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  1. For anyone using reiserfs by Xpilot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is a significant patch that speeds up write operations for large files on IDE drives by up to 15%. This made it in v2.4.20-pre6.

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  2. These changelogs are getting too long... by 7-Vodka · · Score: 5, Interesting
    They need to be put in a database so you can click on a hardware device and get a list of patches applied with other query parameters for example.

    just my $2*10^-2.00

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