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Linux Kernel Performance How Will 2.6 Measure Up?

Posted by Hemos on from the time-for-the-blowhards-to-weigh-in dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This story offers some interesting performance comparisons between the latest stable Linux kernels (2.4.x) and the latest development Linux kernels (2.5.x), comparing performance on both a single processor and dual processors. These numbers help validate that the upcoming 2.6 kernel will outperform the current 2.4 kernel, at least in some instances..."

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  1. Re:Compile time speedups by Arethan · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Autopackage sounds a lot like my pet project Linstaller. I stopped development a while back to get my CCNE and haven't restarted it since. One problem I ran into was what libraries you could expect to be installed on any given platform. Sure, there's the LSB, but does the LSB specify a base set of packages that make up a desktop or a server?

    My aim was a little different from yours though. I was going for complete binary packaging from beginning to end. No source building, as automated ./configure; make; make install;s tend to make distro specific code. Instead I left the cross distro compiling up to the packager. All I provided was an archive format and a self extracting gui or command line installer that totaled under 50k of overhead. I stopped around the middle of implementing the scripting language backend. I didn't like the way it was going, and as I said earlier, CCNE was calling to me.

    Maybe I should start it back up. It's not like I have much else going on lately. hmm...