Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> I may be wrong - but I saw something on linuxtoday.com saying that the 2.4
> series would continue for some time.
Sure. 2.2 continued for more than 2 years. 2.4 will continue for almost same
time. But 2.5 will be kicked off real soon.
2.6 is expected to take as much time because almost all anticipated features are
enterprise features like built in clustering support, distributed VM etc. Also
If I read in between the line correctly, the 2.6 deadlines will be much more
conservatively declared, accounting to the fact that 2.4 was viewed as delay by
market. Though 2.4 lived to the expectations and was worth of all the delay, it
still gave some bad impressions to kernel hacker team.
That judgement can positively go wrong if system vendors like IBM/SGI/Intel/HP
contribute more actively. More and more third party drivers will be added, and
that should accelarate the kernel development by a bit too.
More than kernel, interesting thing is going to be Intel/AMD aka
itanium/sladgehammer war. My guess is intel will be on much more backfoot
compared to P4/Athlon war. Linux will be only OS available, ready to run on it.
That will be interesting scenario.
Shridhar
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