Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 14:02 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: As for TuxOnIce, you can hardly blame people for wanting software which will not only suspend but includes resume. Suspend/Hibernate are pretty broken, for many people TOI works. How

Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
Roberto Ragusa wrote: - a scheduler from Con Kolivas is developed for years and widely used, merging it is always denied until someone else creates a similar scheduler and it is accepted immediately [the scheduler is a core part of the kernel, so why a freshly written one is preferred to a

Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-13 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Kevin Kofler wrote: Roberto Ragusa wrote: - a scheduler from Con Kolivas is developed for years and widely used, merging it is always denied until someone else creates a similar scheduler and it is accepted immediately [the scheduler is a core part of the kernel, so why a freshly written

Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-12 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Greg Woods wrote: I am not a kernel developer, but I know a little about this indirectly. Whether a project gets accepted into mainline depends on a lot of things, but one of the big ones is how intrusive it is. If it requires changes to many drivers and many places in the kernel, it is much

Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-11 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
As for TuxOnIce, you can hardly blame people for wanting software which will not only suspend but includes resume. Suspend/Hibernate are pretty broken, for many people TOI works. How true! Thanks for pointing out TuxOnIce. I have been very frustrated by the stock hibernate on my

Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-11 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 11 February 2010 15:10:49 Roberto Ragusa wrote: Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 14:02 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: As for TuxOnIce, you can hardly blame people for wanting software which will not only suspend but includes resume.

Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-11 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: So what are the reasons for its absence from the mainline kernel then? If it works better than the current mechanisms and is open source, why does it take years to get it into mainline? Is there some

Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kevin Kofler wrote: Antonio Olivares wrote: I have read a bit about the zen kernel http://zen-kernel.org/ Looks like this is a fork of the kernel Linux which hopes for confusion with Xen to grab people's attention. They're merging several patches. Some of the stuff they ship (e.g.

Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-07 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear fellow Fedora users, I have read a bit about the zen kernel http://zen-kernel.org/ and I kindly ask if there are any advantages to running a zen-kernel as opposed to running a Fedora kernel or a native kernel from kernel.org? I have run Fedora kernels, but on occasions run kernels from

Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear fellow Fedora users, I have read a bit about the zen kernel http://zen-kernel.org/ and I kindly ask if there are any advantages to running a zen-kernel as opposed to running a Fedora kernel or a native kernel from kernel.org? I have run Fedora kernels,

Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Antonio Olivares wrote: I have read a bit about the zen kernel http://zen-kernel.org/ Looks like this is a fork of the kernel Linux which hopes for confusion with Xen to grab people's attention. They're merging several patches. Some of the stuff they ship (e.g. btrfs) is also shipped in