The breakdown of what to expect in 2.{5,6} can be found at
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt.Briefly, the major changes include... - New i/o scheduler, which improves desktop performance; - Better scheduler performance under loads (X, make -j5, xmms) with lots of processes; - Rewritten scheduling and threading code, which greatly improves threading performance; - ALSA for sound (Goodbye OSS), and AGP 3 support; - Faster and cleaner framebuffer support; - Faster CD recording that doesn't need ide-scsi; - Upgrades for NFS (v4), NTFS, and HFS+, as well as merges of JFS and XFS; - System-level in-kernel profiling support; - CPU Frequency scaling - IPSec On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 09:34, Christopher Nambale wrote: > >From slashdot: > > Xose quotes Linus from the kernel list: "the naming should be familiar - > it's the same deal as with 2.4.0. One difference is that while 2.4.0 took > about 7 months from the pre1 to the final release, I hope (and believe) > that we have fewer issues facing us in the current 2.6.0. But very > obviously there are going to be a few test-releases before the real thing. > The point of the test versions is to make more people realize that they > need testing and get some straggling developers realizing that it's too > late to worry about the next big feature. I'm hoping that Linux vendors > will start offering the test kernels as installation alternatives, and do > things like make upgrade internal machines, so that when the real 2.6.0 > does happen, we're all set." You all know what to do ;) > > http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html > > CN
