Differences between kernel 2.4 and 2.6 ?

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Jul 20 16:19:13 UTC 2005


Bassam ALHUSSEIN wrote:
> Hello everybody ...
> 
> Can you help pointing me to a good article, book or site that discusses  
> differences between linux
> 2.4 and linux 2.6 ...

Oh, man, there's too many to list.  It's a complete restructuring.
Memory handling is different.  Loadable modules are different.  The 
thread model is different.  Etc., etc.

You can check the kernel site (http://www.kernel.org) and see if there's
a decent listing.
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