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From: Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] which kernel ??? 2.4 or 2.6
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:55:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412061255.17508.mcbrides9@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412061725.28076.mike@gaima.co.uk>

On Monday 06 December 2004 12:25 pm, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Monday 06 December 2004 17:09, pat wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have question. Which kernel is better 2.4 or 2.6 ??? I want to install
> > Gentoo 2004.3 and I'm new to Gentoo.
>
> 2.6, it's the future, I've seen it!
>
> > And is it necessary to have nptl install for 2.6 kernel ??? I think yea,
> > but I want to be shure.
>
> No.
> Doubt you'd notice any real difference eitherway though.

Well... under heavy, long lived loads on a server, NPTL shines like a star. 
For desktop users... not too much to notice.
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-06 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-06 17:09 [gentoo-user] which kernel ??? 2.4 or 2.6 pat
2004-12-06 17:22 ` Jerry McBride
2004-12-06 17:25 ` Mike Williams
2004-12-06 17:55   ` Jerry McBride [this message]
2004-12-06 20:52     ` Niklas Herder
2004-12-06 20:51   ` Uwe Thiem
2004-12-06 17:30 ` Collins Richey
2004-12-06 21:46   ` Bastian Balthazar Bux
2004-12-06 17:39 ` [gentoo-user] " James

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