Some cool things summarised from the below url for people that might not want to wade though it.. (I only picked the onces cool to me.) http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html
- Ability to natively mount cifs filesystems (smb extended for 2000, XP+ systems) - No more scsi emulation for CDRW stuff. - Ability to run a virtual linux inside linux for testing.. linux on linux. - Much beter hardware support. - Much much better sound support. - Bluetooth. - much more reliable NFS (ver4). - full software-suspend-to-disk functionality for the Linux user on the go. - Hyperthreading (for the latest P4's). - improved support: webcams, radio and TV adapters, and digital video recorders. - built-in support for Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) hardware. (tivo like functionality) - Support for systems with multiple AGP cards. - 2.6 now supports Windows' Logical Disk Manager (aka "Dynamic Disks") - mount a NTFS volume read/write. (write still experimental, but much better.) Thats all the stuff you may not have heard.. its also apparently faster and more responsive. I can't wait.. Having said all that, from reading this article. I have trouble with the idea that 2.6 would work on a 9.0 or 9.1 system.. there are some fundamental changes in the underlying structure of 2.6 that would require some changes to a 9.1 system before it would work properly. Anyway, I got all excited about this and had to share,, I am seeing someone about this problem and I hope to be able to restrain myself in future. :-) regards Franki http://htmlfixit.com
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