[KLUG Members] Kernel 2.5.68

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Call me lazy, but I haven't had a chance yet to compare the Red Hat 2.4
> kernel to the stock Linus 2.5.x. I did just sit down and compare just
> now, though, and I note the following differences:
> Where is the 2.4 XFS .config option? in 2.5.x it's CONFIG_XFS_FS. Also,
> CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL is gone, probably because it's integrated in 2.5.x.

Sweet! Die ext2 die!  Forks and ACLs, finally, and there I thought hell
was going to actually freeze over.

> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA): is in 2.5.x, but not RH 2.4.

I thought I read ALSA was going to be in RH9, but then it wasn't -
disappointment.

> Kernel Preemption: in 2.5.x. RH's 2.4 has the complementary low-latency
> patch.

And the performance of RH9 seems noticeable more zesty than RH8.

> ACPI: It's in 2.5.x, but immature.

I'd settle for that.

> Enterprise Volume Management System: in RH 2.4, not in 2.5.x. Linus and
> Alan Cox sent EVMS back down to the team for redesigning.

LVM1 & 2 are still their.  LVM2 is on-disk compatible with LVM1, as in
it upgrades automatically.  I'm curious how LVM systems handle booting
between 2.4 & pre-2.6.