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Taking a look forward: Linux 2.4

Posted by Hemos on from the check-out-what's-coming dept.

A reader sent us the latest story from Joe Pranevich regarding the Linux 2.4 Kernel. Much like his original article on 2.2, he takes a look at what's changing, and what's coming. (Hopefully by this fall. Hopefully).

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  1. Re:DVD Support? by pb · · Score: 3
    There *is* some work on that, there is at least support for a filesystem, but I don't know how they're going to handle decoding the encrypted stuff.

    Take a look at Linux and DVDs for more information...

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  2. DVD Support? by Fict · · Score: 3

    I didn't see anything in there about dvd support. Any active kernel developers have a word on that?

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  3. What would be nice in 2.6 (or 3.0) by nstrug · · Score: 3
    Kernel
    • Faster TCP/IP
    • binding NICs to processors
    • Useable NFS - one that doesn't crash IRIX 6.5 servers and implements NFS v3
    • Guaranteed rate I/O
    • Finer kernel locks (this is being done already)
    Filesystems/Drivers
    • Finer locks - threading device drivers that might benefit
    • Journalling file system
    • logical volume management (maybe in 2.4)
    • Hardware DVD decoders (please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
    • Better support for PCI sound cards
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