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["David C. Haley" <dhaley AT hot.rr.com>]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 13:03, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Wolfgang Scheicher <worf AT sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>:
> > As far as i can tell there are less and less problems with 2.6.x kernels.
> > I myself switched my work system to 2.6.x when 2.6.2 got released, and 
> > with
> > my 
> > new glibc i burned the bridges behind me.
> > 
> > So when shall we use 2.6.x as default for the linux spell and the iso?
> > 
> > We shouldn't do it to early, but propably shouldn't wait too long either.
> > 
> > I for myself belive that things work well enough to switch test grimoire 
> > to
> > 2.6.x kernels soon (within the next weeks). And stable somewhen later 
> > when 
> > it's save. This doesn't mean that users have to upgrade, it's more about 
> > what
> > 
> > shall be default. However, a user should not run into too much troubles 
> > when
> > 
> > using the default :-)
> > 
> > So - Which kernels are you running, and which problems did you run into 
> > because of your kernel?
> > 
> > Worf
> 
> All of my machines (except my server) have been using 2.6 for at least a few
> weeks now (some since 2.6.0-test1 came out), and NPTL since it was enabled 
> in
> glibc (great work, by the way!). I'd like to see 2.6 as the default along 
> with
> an ISO (but after 1.0 most likely) as 2.6 fixes quite a few problems and is
> /really/ fast.

Don't flog me if this is a stupid question. But, since this had started
up I've read how people say that it 2.6.x is faster. Is there something
out there that can actually measure how fast a kernel functions...or it
is just one of those perceptive things?

> 
> -sandalle
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