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Re: What's almost ready?
Any more updates? Do any maintainers want to comment on the
relative effort required to complete each item?
feature status Linus says
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new filesystems
devfs been around for ages - stable ?
reiserfs firming up? ?
UDF fs ? ?
VMS fs ? ?
SGI EFS fs ? ?
shmfs ? ?
filesystem enhancements
Ext2 ACLs ? ?
Ext2 comp. complete, stable ?
SuperMount ? ?
memory management
OOM process killer been tossed around for a while ?
ZONE Allocator ? ?
networking
DECnet almost done ?
ATM works well, ready soon ?
device drivers
ALSA working - needs testing? ?
raw IO patch exists Hates it
I2O Alan Cox playing with ?
USB ? ?
scalability
lots of fd's in ac patches - stable ?
Large files patch exists, pretty new ?
32-bit UID ? ?
graphics
KGI Still a ways off? bad idea
misc
RT-Linux Been around for a while ?
per-user limits ? ?
new makefiles ? ?
revoke() ? ?
tie process to CPU in the works ?
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