[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Have you gotten on board with the latest Linux 2.6 kernel? If
you haven’t, you should. Although the kernel is barely a couple of
months old, it’s already putting the prior 2.4 kernel to shame when
it comes to performance benchmarks, showing enterprise customers
that Linux is definitely a force to be reckoned with in the server
rooms of large companies everywhere.“The performance gains should come as little surprise to
watchers of kernel mailing lists, however. Linus Torvalds, creator
and chief architect of the Linux kernel, announced at the start of
the new kernel process that the focus would be on enterprise
computing. The success of this goal is obvious; the new kernel
includes support for vastly larger memory models, a greater number
of logical devices, a revamped process scheduler, a fully
pre-emptible kernel, and much more…”