Huge improvement over 12 I must say, i'm still on 2.4 kernel though :D
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Huge improvement over 12 I must say, i'm still on 2.4 kernel though :D
The Slackware Linux Project: Get Slack
forcing 2.4 in this day & age is just bloody mindedness by patrick
according to the press release on the site it uses 2.6 now doesn't it
2.6 since 12.0. Haven't got round to recompiling my 2.4 kernel for latest slack. I'm not sure I need to though either. Definitely don't for the servers at work.
thank christ. there's so little reason to use 2.4, given the features & performance of 2.6Quote:
Originally Posted by alsenior
2.4 is old, messy, unsupported, slow and generally rubbish, update it, asap, *especially* for servers.Quote:
Originally Posted by yamangman
I'm just supprised people have been jamming 2.6 subsystem/feature patches into 2.4 for this long.Quote:
Originally Posted by directhex
I think its the 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' adage.Quote:
Originally Posted by aidanjt
but with that logic we'd all be living in caves, running on kernels which have a massive quantum...... oh.
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Originally Posted by TheAnimus
Well, that's only if everyone had that logic, but if that was the case, you would be the fool for thinking differently.
Except in this case, not fixing causes ghastly breakage.Quote:
Originally Posted by yamangman
For instance?Quote:
Originally Posted by aidanjt
2.6 core and subsystem interfaces is *very* different from 2.4, jamming in 2.6 subsystems, features, and drivers into 2.4 is nasty business, and not very well tested, therefore not safe, in otherwords, keeping 2.4 'modern' in that manner causes breakage. It's like building a dam, then realising it isn't high enough for flood waters, and adding an extra hundred metres of concrete on top of it, it simply isn't designed to do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by yamangman
I don't need any new functionality or bleeding edge features. I don't need hotplugging or hyperthreading. More than happy with the performance of my own compiled 2.4 kernel also. True performance may be better on 2.6 particularly in a server role. Heck, that increase might even be vaguely noticeable too.
the only major distro i'm aware of with a frankenkernel is RHEL3 - which ran 2.4, but with "Minor" features such as the entire threading infrastructure backported from 2.6Quote:
Originally Posted by aidanjt
Well, pretty much any distro that maintains a 2.4 kernel needs to do this to stave off bitrot and not have an antiquated userspace just to get the thing to boot. But thankfully, I only know of less than a handful that even has it.Quote:
Originally Posted by directhex