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

[Peter Buxton]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:47:31PM -0500, Adam Williams wrote:

> I think in RH8, yes.  All I remember is that installing 8.0 on my wife
> laptop, sound just worked; as it does on iPaqs.  Neither was true with
> 7.x, that required dinking.

I don't know if OSS is that much worse than ALSA at autoconfig. ALSA has
built-in OSS emulation, try `ls -l /proc/asound`.

> > 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.
>
> This is apparently in 9.0,  although I don't recall seeing it in
> Pheobe (I run lots of Java apps, not of them crashed, a solid
> indicator that POSIX threading wasn't there).

Hmmm... I would seriously doubt it's in 9.0:

http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/press/2003/press_rhl9/

 - First introduction of new threading technology: NPTL (Native POSIX
   Thread Library)

Holy crap, I could be wrong! Wow. (Course, I got half the name wrong.
:-) <droooolll....>

Hmmm... with the 2.4.20 kernel. They had to backport a metric shitload
of 2.5 patches to achieve the high-efficiency kernel threading to
support NPTL.  Bets say that 9.1 (or 10) will have 2.6.x.

NPTL... must resist... urge to... convert....

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