[KLUG Members] Reports from the bleeding edge....

[Peter Buxton]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 04:04:00PM -0500, Adam Williams wrote:

> > 2.5.59 would compile (gcc 3.2), but hang at boot. 2.5.66 runs, and
> > runs nicely, if you do the following:
> 
> How about a whats new with 2.5/2.6 kernels presentation.

That might work, but so much of the good stuff has been backported to
2.4 vendor kernels anyway you might not notice any difference! 

Preemptive kernels/low latency patches - 2.4 preemption isn't safe, like
2.5.x, but low latency is, and delivers much the same effects. RH
includes lowlatency patches in its kernels (you may have to manually set
/proc/kernel/lowlatency (?) to turn this on, if it isn't on by default).

ALSA over OSS - my understanding is that Red Hat ships these already.

O(1) scheduler - backported.

New POSIX Threads for Linux/Next Gen. POSIX Threads - I think both
require large glibc changes and are still 2.5 only, though they are not
actually included.

If someone wants to mail me a copy of a stock RH/SuSE kernel config
file, I'll read 'em over and see what kind of differences exist.

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