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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
  -------------------------------------------------------------------

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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