Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Presenting Linux to the Corporate World | Date | 24 May 1999 18:41:46 GMT |
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Followup to: <37484245.4B0BBBB1@interhack.net> By author: "D. Clyde Williamson" <dclydew@interhack.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I work for a large corporation (by large, I mean +1000 employees for > just the IS dept), and have finally gotten my "30-minutes" in front of > their standards committe to present Linux. This is a Good Thing. > > What I'm looking for is a pointer to resources that I can pull from to > create my presentation. I've got "The Cathedral and the Bazzar" as well > as "Managers Guide To Linux" What I'm looking for now is a sort of rough > roadplan for the 2.4.x kernel etc. Any thoughts on how long before we > see ACL's, journaling filesystems, Heavy Duty SMP support... remember > this is for the PHB's.... I'm currently running in our testbed a > Dual-Processor PII system as File/Print/Intranet for our R&D group > (2.2.8 kernel) it works fine.
Journaling, heavy duty SMP support, and large uid/gid's are definitely on the map for 2.4. 2.4 will most likely have SGI's XFS filesystem; quite possibly even a journaling version of ext2.
I don't know if ACL's are included in that plan.
2.2.8 may have problems, btw, I understand...
-hpa
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