Bang for the Buck, comparing Celerons to Xeons (and PIIIs?)

Alan DuBoff maestro@softorchestra.com
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 02:43:59 -0700


Alan DuBoff wrote:

> I was thinking of going to the 2.3.18 kernel on my dual Celeron box, since
> Linus seemed to imply at LinuxWorld that a lot of work had been put into the
> SMP code, and that it will scale well to 8 processors.

BTW, I saw the 2.3.18 kernel post on Freshmeat and read Linus's comment in
there. Seems the 2.4 kernel is at the end of this home stretch...no more
additions, it's just bug fixin'...said he was taking a 2 week
vacation...Sounded like he's happy with the PCMCIA code now...FWIW.

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Alan DuBoff
Software Orchestration, Inc.