blogs.computerworld.com— This Christmas Linux kernel release brings several great new features to Linux, and its improvements promise even more Linux desktop goodness in the future.
Jan 9, 2009View in Crawl 4
How on earth do you expect applications to improve if the layer they sit on (the OS) doesn't improve a step or two ahead?Edit: worth pointing out that the kernel developers don't create everything Linux - yell at the people who develop OOo or GIMP if you're upset with those projects' progress - the kernel guys have nothing to do with it.
Agreed. I've had very few problems with my all-Intel chipset laptop, in fact, all the hardware did "just work." But sometimes my laptop and router don't seem to want to connect, and I still had to fine-tune the laptop-mode.conf file to keep my drive head from parking/unparking every few seconds (that wears it out prematurely).
Still haven't heard why kernel changes make for Linux's best features.Maybe they are Linux's best features for developers or hobbyists, but "best features" without qualifications makes me think of a mainstream user audience. Am I wrong?
tk0680Jan 10, 2009
How on earth do you expect applications to improve if the layer they sit on (the OS) doesn't improve a step or two ahead?Edit: worth pointing out that the kernel developers don't create everything Linux - yell at the people who develop OOo or GIMP if you're upset with those projects' progress - the kernel guys have nothing to do with it.
gumgutsJan 11, 2009
I wish there were articles about Linux like "Oh! Shiny new taskbar!" cause it could use it a heck of a lot...
ricopicoukJan 11, 2009
Gates was talking about system RAM, not storage space.
reddikilowattJan 11, 2009
Agreed. I've had very few problems with my all-Intel chipset laptop, in fact, all the hardware did "just work." But sometimes my laptop and router don't seem to want to connect, and I still had to fine-tune the laptop-mode.conf file to keep my drive head from parking/unparking every few seconds (that wears it out prematurely).
sjvnJan 11, 2009Submitter
Ext4 is really quite good., and I've found it to be more stable than ext2/3. Steven
xspinkickxJan 11, 2009
ok correction as of 2.6.23 extents is enabled by default so you need to turn off extents if you want to keep backwards compatibility.
pinkythewinkyJan 12, 2009
One exabyte :P
fandyllicJan 13, 2009
Still haven't heard why kernel changes make for Linux's best features.Maybe they are Linux's best features for developers or hobbyists, but "best features" without qualifications makes me think of a mainstream user audience. Am I wrong?