Re: [Sheflug] Linux 2.4.8y

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:29:54PM +0100, Chris J/#6 wrote:
> Well I'm grabbing it now and choking rather violently over the filezise ... 
> it's a wopping 26MB...

Yeah ;) Mine was 21Mb IIRC - are you getting gz over bz2?

I'm also downloading over a 56K modem (not at work today ;) plus I had to
restart the download not once, but twice, totalling ~30Mb of lost data
(what? no resume? no - my / was 100% full, so it just got deleted. thicky
alex needed two attempts before I worked out what was going on!!)

> look?") which is still running a 2.0 kernel ... and the source tree for a 
> 2.0 is 6MB.

Be interesting to see where all the stuff has been added - new filesystems,
new drivers, new network stacks, etc. etc. 

I still think 2.4 is slower than 2.2 though, at least on this machine. I
might have to nab a 2.2 from somewhere just to prove it at some point, but
it certainly feels slower (that said, 2.4.8 is a lot quicker than 2.4.0, so
perhaps I've not given 8 a sufficient chance to prove itself yet!).

I also still don't think 2.4 is particularly stable yet - it seems okay, but
the compile felt really wobbly for some reason :(

Cheers,

Alex.
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