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Linux Kernel 2.6.20 Released
diegocgteleline.es writes "After two months of development, Linux 2.6.20 has been released. This release includes two different virtualization implementations: KVM: full-virtualization capabilities using Intel/AMD virtualization extensions and a paravirtualization implementation usable by different hypervisors. Additionally, 2.6.20 includes PS3 support, a fault injection debugging feature, UDP-lite support, better per-process IO accounting, relative atime, relocatable x86 kernel, some x86 microoptimizations, lockless radix-tree readside, shared pagetables for hugetbl, and many other things. Read the list of changes for more details."
I just loaded the new kernel up in my guest virtual machine and according to my benchmarks I experienced a 100% performance increase. That is HUGE!
I didn't see much in the changelog that was useful outside of a server farm.
P.S. There is no such thing as GNU/Linux.
'If a n00b, who is curious about Linux but is not making a "legitimate effort", hears "RTFM" (or "RTFA", in this case), and is put off Linux, possibly forever, is that appropriate?'
Yup. Perhaps you want to see freeloaders of that sort in the linux community or the computing world in general for that matter but I do not.
'Where did you get that idea? I never said anything of the sort.'
You said it by implication. If it is not appropriate to refer someone, someone that has enough technical knowledge to ask a question that could only interest the technically literate in the first place, back to the article (which they have already been referred to for their answer) then there is never an appropriate time. Particularly when the answer they seek is found at the beginning of the article with a heading that could not be misunderstood that makes clear it is found there in rather large pronounced bold letters.
'You've really got to consider how your help is going to be received (if your goal is actually to help, which it's clear it was).'
My goal was mixed. Ultimately, yes I wanted to help and did in fact provide the answer. There is no way that following my referal could have failed to yield the answer. But I certainly intended to reprimand as well. The question was on the par of asking how to construct a paper airplane immediately after seeing 10 posts pointing to articles on paper airplane making. The poster just wanted someone else to look for him. The only reason I answered at all is because I am a fairly lazy individual myself.