SD Times: Linux Kernel 2.6 For Machines Great and Small

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 19, 2003

[ 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…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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