On Monday, Oct 27, 2003, at 17:29 Europe/London, Rob Kendrick wrote:
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 17:14, Keith Watson wrote:
Anyone on the list using the 2.6 kernel? if so what's the general opinion of it?
I've been using 2.6.0-test9 in a VMware virtual machine for the past few days. It's got Debian Unstable running it it (exactly the same version as running on the host machine, as we have a local mirror). I'm impressed. Mozilla, for example, was quicker at loading, rendering, scrolling and such in the VM than the same version of Mozilla running on the host.
That's the preempt chaps =)
I'll most likely wait until 2.6.2 is released before switching my main machine over to it, though - experience tells me they get a flurry of bug fixes in after .0 and .1 :)
Heh.. I have been running their 2.5.x kernels all the way up to the latest 2.6 kernel. You will definitely love it. Along with andrew morton's patchset, it seriously flies on my mini itx VIA Ezra CentaurHauls 800mhz! Proving this along using mplayer, file sharing (samba/NFS), downloading. Perfect.
I'm pondering to stick it on one of the boxes at work to see if it works in 'real world' situation.
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