Version 2.2 of the kernel adds hardware support for new
technologies and peripherals that have shipped in the past two
years…
… should help provide much better performance on almost all
machines…
The real improvement is in inter-Unix connectivity. Linux 2.2
reads the partition table formats used by FreeBSD, SunOS, and
Solaris….
… will also support full RAID 0, 1, 4, and 5 modes.