[oclug] Yay: Linux v2.6.0-test1

[Ross Jordan]

> 
> 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.

Several of the patches have been backported to 2.4.21; interactive
tasks in X are improved under 2.4.21.
Hopefully 2.6 will be even better.

-Ross