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Linux 3.0 Will Be Faster Than 2.6.39

Posted by timothy on from the phrase-in-person-hours-saved dept.

sfcrazy writes "While we were thinking that the announcement of 3.x branch was nothing more than Linus' mood swing, it seems there is more to it. Linus wrote on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, '3.0 will still be noticeably faster than 2.6.39 due to the other changes made (ie the read-ahead), so yes, the regression itself is fixed.'"

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  1. Re:Faster? by garyebickford · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Strictly speaking, Linux is the kernel - the 'entire OS' is properly GNU/Linux. Most of the core applications and libraries are from GNU. Ask Richard Stallman, he'll provide a couple of hours of instruction this topic, I'm sure.

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