KernelTrap: Linux, 2.6.23-rc2, “-rc2 Is the New -rc1”
“‘So I tried to hold people to the merge window,’ Linus Torvalds
began in announcing the 2.6.23-rc2 kernel, ‘and said no to a few
pull requests, but this whole ‘-rc2 is the new -rc1′ thing is a
disease, and not only is -rc2 late, it’s bigger than it should be.
Oh, well.’ He noted that over 250 people contributed patches
between -rc1 and -rc2, adding:“‘A lot of the changes are small, and a lot of them really are
fixes, but there’s a MIPS merge in there too, and some absolutely
_huge_ diffs due to some drivers undergoing Lindent cleanups (28
_thousand_ lines changes in advansys.c, and the PNP files got
Lindented too, although those weren’t nearly as big)…'”
Phoronix: Linux 2.6.23-rc2 Kernel Performance
[ Thanks to Michael
Larabel for this link. ]
“While the Linux 2.6.23 kernel is only weeks into development,
it’s already generated quite a bit of attention. From the merging
of the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) to the -rc2 kernel being
“the new -rc1″, the Linux 2.6.23 kernel is certainly in store for
being an ornate release. Adding to this attention has been a stable
user-space driver API and virtualization improvements (KVM, Xen,
and LGuest). With all of this activity surrounding the Linux 2.6.23
kernel we’ve decided to conduct a handful of benchmarks comparing
the Linux 2.6.20, 2.6.21, 2.6.22, and 2.6.23 kernel releases so
far…”