[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Now feature-locked, the Linux kernel 2.6, which went to beta
testing on July 14, includes patches that cater to the mass market
and the massively scalable. Server-app developers can look forward
to 64-way processing, enormous block-size support and a
hyperthreading-aware scheduler. Also incorporated are kernel
pre-emption and uClinux patches, the latter giving embedded
developers a mainstream method of running Linux on low-cost
processors that lack a memory management unit…”