On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:24:34AM -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>
>
> With all the SCO fun going on I have people asking me what functionality
> we would loose if we rolled from 2.4.21 kernel to the last known stable
> 2.2 kernel.
>
> Yes, weathering the lawsuit mess and all is a good plan but I'm still
> being asked for this information. Does anyone have a link listing what
> kind of functionality would be lost, performance impact (p3 and athalon
> machines), etc?
No highmem support,
No journaled filesystems.
No netfilter. Fewer networking features. Period. (ethernet bridging, etc)
Slower SMP
I don't know if it's psycological, but whenever I booted 2.2 on my desktop,
it felt slower.
This was a while ago though.
Mike
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