[wellylug] VMWare price drop

Simon Blake simon at citylink.co.nz
Fri May 7 12:10:52 NZST 2004


On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:42:17AM +1200, David Zanetti said:
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> On Fri, 7 May 2004, Sam Cannell wrote:
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> > Personally, I'm in no rush to upgrade to 2.6 - the preemption support is
> > very nice, but there's a backport patch for that to 2.4.  I'm going to
> > keep to 2.4 on everything I use regularly until 2.6 is a bit more
> > established and there are more drivers available for it.
> 
> Running 2.6 here on my work machine, it's great. Sure, some drivers are
> not ported to the new model yet, but there's shiny new drivers you can't
> get in 2.4 (like reverse engineered nForce NIC drivers! yay!)..

<obnitpick>

the reverse engineered nForce drivers went into stock 2.4.25 aways back, 
and was updated several times before 2.4.26 came out.  So there are lots 
of shiny reasons to run 2.6, but the nforce drivers isn't necessarily 
one of them.

</obnitpick>

Cheers
Si
 
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