It was Januari 2001, almost 3 years ago when the previous Linux operating system kernel 2.4 was released, with kernel support for ISA Plug-and-Play, USB, PC Card. But last December the new Linux kernel 2.6 was released and we must say there are a lot of great new features in it.
In this article we give an overview of the most important new features and give you some useful links where you can find the info how to upgrade your kernel from 2.4 to 2.6
The new Kernel 2.6 features
To name every new feature in detail this article has to be about 10.000 words so we stick to an overview of the most important enhancements and new features.
Hyperthreading
A major hardware advancement supported under Linux 2.6 is the support for hyper threading. This technology is currently built into modern Pentium 4 800 MHZ processors. It allows a single physical processor to act as two processors. Some current applications already can use this technology and show a better performance.
Also important to mention in the 2.6 kernel's improved support for hyper threading is that the scheduler recognizes and optimizes processor loads across both real and virtual processors within a machine. In the former versions of the Linux kernel, it was possible to overwork a single processor.
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