What kernel(s) are you using?

[Gillion]

Interms of the make menuconfig layout and the actual make and make install process... its much more streamlined

all drivers and filesystem are categorized

as for perfomance..

the 2.6 series has a pre-epmtive feature that makes running linux lighting fast even on older hardware.

it is also designed to be stripped down to just the basics

modules are compresses so its footprint si small

memory mamangement is WAAAAAAAAAAAAY better than the 2.4.x series

even SMP is improved

its just better designed overall

I can't quote stats

but the experience I have with running 2.4.30 and 2.6.11-rc on a SuSE 9.0 install on a 1GHz processor with 256Megs of ram is shocking.

Then their is udev

it make usb plug and play almost where it should be.

i don't have to manually mount my usb drives anymore... with udev and hotplug its actually plug and play

and the best feature for me

HIBERNATION and ACPI

I can actually hibernate my computer and resume (something windows users take from granted) with ease... I do not powerdown my computer anymore unless I experimenting with the kernel and its been up for a while

so what I do is when my power from JPS goes and the ups is low... is to set the ups daemon to hibernate the machine

when i come home i just press power button and within 15 seconds its back on !!

the hibernate uses swap partitions

cd bruning is better.... i do not have to use ide-scsi anymore

dvd playback is better as well as sound because the latency of the kernel is remarkably lower than the odler 2.4.x series

even network is snappier with my NFS links back and forth to my compters.

[Gillion]

and of course


i can safely write to ntfs partitions

[DarkChild]

I am using 2.6.10 on my Ubuntu and most of what i want work from upgrade even Hibernate works well for me.

[bluwulf]

Revamped Linux Kernel Numbering Concluded

"Following on the heels of a prior discussion about a kernel numbering scheme, KernelTrap has the conclusion. From summary: "Linus Torvalds decided against trying to add meaning to the odd/even least significant number. Instead, the new plan is to go from the current 2.6.x numbering to a finer-grained 2.6.x.y. Linus will continue to maintain only the 2.6.x releases, and the -rc releases in between. Others will add trivial patches to create the 2.6.x.y releases. Linus cautions that the task of maintaining a 2.6.x.y tree is not going to be enjoyable.'" Torvalds suggested specific guidelines to alleviate burn-out of the .y maintainer and Greg KH volunteered to begin maintainership."

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