Linux 2.0.37 Released

After many months of hacking, Alan Cox has released what is likely to be the last 2.0 kernel. He writes in his diary that we will only see 2.0.38 if there is some sort of security hole. For those who don't know the drill by now, you can download the kernel from any kernel.org mirror.

Comments

Re:Is there any reason to stay with the 2.0.x seri

[Chris Frost]

Well, I know of at least one actually. 2.2 was designed with the notion that everyone has at least 16megs of ram (or at least everyone that will want to upgrade), so there are all sorts of optimizations and such which make 2.2 slower on machines with around 16megs or less of ram (certain cases being exceptions of course). Not that this is bad, we shouldn't hold linux back so that we can always run it on a two meg 386 without a math coprocessor, we just have to be careful to not assume to high of a hardware configuration. I'm still running 2.0.36 on a 486 with 16megs of ram (100mhz fwiw) and it runs a bit faster than with 2.2, so it's staying with 2.0 unless something terible is found which can't really be fixed.

So, yes, there are technical reasons out there to stay with 2.0.

Hope that helped,
Chris Frost