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LinuxWorld: Stronger I/O & VM Coming Soon to Linux

Posted by timothy on from the what-does-this-guy-know-anyhow dept.

Mark Brunelli, News Editor writes "Tim Witham, CTO of Open Source Development Labs and a featured speaker at LinuxWorld, says the next Linux kernel will feature improved input/output and virtualization capabilities. Said Witham: 'Enabling virtualization is a big win [for Linux 2.6] as it allows IT shops to start their development cycles for a technology they will be looking at deploying within the next year or so. There has been lots of good work done with regard to system scalability, memory management, disk I/O, process and thread scalability. Also, work done for availability, like a greatly improved multi-path I/O [were victories].'"

2 of 37 comments (clear)

  1. Freebsd by jmazzi · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Will the new linux kernel be able to compete with freebsd's disk I/O?

  2. Re:May be what the Linux community needs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why did you even expend the effort to type such a content-free post?