Re: 2.4 -> 2.2 differences?

From: jw schultz (jw@pegasys.ws)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 17:34:20 EST

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?

You could start with Joe Pranevich's "Wonderful World of
Linux 2.4" at
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-10-03-001-05-NW-LF

There have been a number of improvements and features added
since but any 2.2 -> 2.4 features summary should indicate
much of what you would loose in a 2.4 -> 2.2 transition. 

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