Lining up for Linux
(11/15/99, 5:37 p.m. ET)
By Paula Rooney, Computer Reseller News
While the industry waits for Windows 2000, backers of Linux Monday detailed upcoming futures for their own operating system kernel.
With the Linux 2.4 kernel set for release by year's end, companies such as Caldera Systems, Red Hat, and TurboLinux are prepping major new distributions for the release during the second quarter of 2000, executives said at a Comdex press conference.
The Linux 2.4 kernel, under the guidance of Linus Torvalds, will feature improved support for SMP, laptops, and PCMCIA cards, and faster performance for file-system services, said several Linux backers. For example, the updated kernel will offer improved caching for file look-up and disk caching.
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