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Towards Linux 2.6

Posted by michael on from the baby-steps dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The impending release of a new stable kernel promises greater adoption for Linux, as it becomes more reliable and scalable over a larger variety of processors. This article highlights some of the changes, both big and small, with some code samples."

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  1. No MMU? Finally! by grunthos · · Score: 3, Interesting
    including support for MMU-less systems that do not have a hardware-controlled memory management scheme

    Well, it's about time-- I've been waiting years to run this Linux thing directly on my original IBM AT. Now I can yank out that Intel Inboard/386 hack I had to add in to get it to work. That has always bugged me.

    At least it can just be unplugged with no regrets. Unlike cutting my other original IBM AT case with the Dremel to get that stupid ATX motherboard in there; no going back on that one. Stupid progress.

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    My son's 5th grade teacher actually assigned them "write a limerick about a planet". I'm not kidding.