“The next version of Linux’s kernel will improve Linux’s current
capabilities and add few new ones, Linux creator Linus Torvalds
told a huge audience at the Linux World Conference & Expo in
San Jose last night.
Torvalds said Version 2.4 of the kernel will be finished by
year’s end but will be far less ambitious than the current 2.2
kernel, which took more than two years to develop. …emphasized
that version 2.4 should fulfill the promise that developers labored
for in producing 2.2.”
“For example, Version 2.2 included the ability to run Linux on
machines with up to eight processors, but Version 2.4 will optimize
that capability so that there are far fewer situations in which the
system might struggle…”
“Major advances in Linux’s enterprise scalability will have
to wait at least a year for Version 3.0 of the
kernel… journaling file system… support for clustering…
But some vendors are already demonstrating Linux clustering
technologies to the thousands of attendees at the
conference.”