Avoiding Blobs
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| A recent attempt to push some V4L/DVB updates for inclusion in the 2.6.24
| Linux kernel met with some resistance.
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| [...]
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| Andrew Morton also explained, "until your attempt to get the userspace-driver
| work merged into the kernel is successful (and from my reading of last
| month's discussion it is nowhere near that), we should continue to maintain
| the present driver."
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http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Avoiding_Blobs
Scheduler Merge for 2.6.24
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| "It contains lots of scheduler updates from lots of people - hopefully the
| last big one for quite some time," began Ingo Molnar, describing his merge
| request for the linux-2.6-sched git tree.
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http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Scheduler_Merge_for_2.6.24
Related:
Linux 2.6.23 Kernel Benchmarks
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| The Linux 2.6.23 kernel has been released today and we have some preliminary
| benchmarks of the 2.6.23 kernel as we compare it to the past Linux 2.6.22
| kernel. We will have more on the Linux 2.6.23 kernel once we have tested it
| more extensively, but the benchmarks we have ran so far include Quake 4, LAME
| encoding, Gzip compression, and RAMspeed.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=872&num=1
Linux Kernel Gets 'Fair'
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| The 2.6.24 kernel is expected to include a number of networking related
| enhancements that will expand functionality and improve performance.
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http://www.internetnews.com/article.php/3704396
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