[oclug] Yay: Linux v2.6.0-test1

[Dave Edwards]

On Mon. 2003-07-14, 16:16, Warren A. Layton wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 03:41:51PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
> 
> > I'm most keen to try out the new scheduler which will be great both
> > for workstations & servers.  There was talk of a modular scheduler
> > design which would allow new schedulers to be loaded into the kernel
> > as modules. Not sure if that made it in as standard but patches
> > (produced by IBM and others) are available.
> 
> At the moment, I don't think the scheduler is ideal for desktop use.
> It's being worked on so hopefully it will be decent by the time 2.6.0
> is released (or soon after).

I heard that, too.  In general, the speed of interactive computing in
2.6 is said to have noticeably improved.

Dave.
-- 
Dave Edwards <dle at sympatico.ca>
Freelance and Technical Writer,
With Special Interest in Open Source Software
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