Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:08:47 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 -> 2.2 differences? |
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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.
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