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Improve Your GNU/Linux Experience With -mm Patches

Posted by timothy on from the mystical-promises dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Anyone interested in squeezing maximum performance out of their GNU/Linux operating system and willing to compile a new kernel will be interested in this KernelTrap article about Andrew Morton's -mm patchset. The patchset currently offers better stability and performance than the mainline 2.6.0-test kernel, as well as containing numerous functionality enhancements. Much of the additional functionality is described, as well as providing simple step by step installation instructions. Reading this article, one can certainly understand why Linux creator Linus Torvalds has chosen Andrew to soon become the 2.6 maintainer."

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  1. Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Linux creator Linus Torvalds has chosen Andrew to soon become the 2.6 maintainer."

    Hmm.. I thought Linux was open source and anyone could damn well do what they please with it. What's stopping me from becoming the Linux 2.6 kernel maintainer?

  2. Tiresome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Oh, of course, if you really want your Linux kernel to be stable, just use the patchset from http://foo.org. If you want improved perfomance for desktop systems, use the http://bar.org patch, or maybe the incompatible one from http://quux.org if you want to have some more security features. Or here's another one specially designed for SMP systems, and yet another one for embedded systems, and this one will even not crash in too frequently in common setups.

    Boy, this is getting annoying. How about releasing one Linux kernel that does things right? But then again, one could also go for binary compatibility between releases, or other basic best practices of software development, and where would that end?!