[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
This should make for some interesting performance on Intel's Itanium 2 and
Centrino Mobile Processors
Regards,
Mark Tinka - CCNA
Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda
