On 2/20/06, M. Fioretti
Hello,
I am looking for one synthetic summary of all the main new features and improvements which found their way in the 2.6xx (and maybe 2.4.xx too) kernels since the beginning of 2005.
Does something like this exist? I know the detailed changelogs are online, but I don't need *all* those details.
If a summary doesn't exist: what would *you* list as main feature/ improvement? Just the feature name is OK, I can find and study it myself afterwards.
Thank you in advance for any feedback,
Marco
I would review the kernel traffic summaries. I think there tends to be about one summary a month. http://kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/archives2.html Unfortunately I just read that Zack Brown has retired from the summarization game in Nov. 2005 so the above is no longer being updated. Zack did so for several years and it was a great service. FYI: I only follow the storage portions of the kernel, so I don't know much about the rest offhand. There has been massive changes to the storage subsystem over the last year. Look for SCSI/SATA/Firewire/FC related changes. Both SAS and iSCSI are newly added to the kernel in that timeframe. In particular, the libata driver for SATA has probably seen the most change of anything I've noticed and is aggressively adding PATA support. In another release or two (2.6.18?) it may totally replace the old IDE driver. Also udev has seen big changes. FYI2: SAS = Serial Attached SCSI. Think SATA for SCSI. iSCSI = SCSI over IP. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century