Andrew Morton has provided a short list of features and fixes that will be included in the 2.6.14 kernel which include OCFS2, Relayfs, v9fs, FUSE, pcmcia and scheduler updates among other changes including hundreds of bug fixes.
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Member since:2005-07-08
"Wireless in Linux is shxt at best. and it's not just me but couple of my colleagues agree with that."
I humbly disagree with you and your colleagues. The GNOME networking panel detects all available networks, I put in the WEP key if needed and click activate. I don't know how it could improve. I use ipw2100 as my only net connection, and it stays up for months without a problem.
"dont get me wrong, I love linux, but, in term of wireless compatibility and stability, linux totally falls waaay behind Windows (not sure about freebsd)."
If you know anything about FreeBSD, you know that one of its primary shortcomings is wireless support. The devs are focusing really hard on that for 6.0.
Member since:2005-07-11
Wireless in Linux needs work?
Yes, yes it does. Every wireless driver includes its own 802.11 network stack (there's work on unifying behind a single 802.11 stack, but it's not standard). Each driver includes its own suite of tools to configure it, instead of using the standard ifconfig command. WPA support is just now starting to pick up. There's several different methods for detecting, configuring, and maintaining wireless devices (discover, hotplug, ifplug, divine, etc).
Linux wireless support (like everything in Linux) is all over the map.
Linux developers need to look beyond their little piece of code to see how others are handling wireless. For instance, FreeBSD has modularised ifconfig, and all the wireless drivers add their little piece to ifconfig. Meaning, a single command is used to configure all networking chipsets, whether they are wired or wireless.
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2005-07-06
Wireless in Linux needs work?
I must say, the wireless in Linux is phenomenal. I find that it is much more reliable Windows.
What needs to be fixed is wireless drivers, but the kernel devs can't do much about that... just only buy brands that do offer drivers for Linux (Linksys, Intel, etc.).
Now, one area where wireless is lacking in Linux is user interface. However, yet again this is not in the hands of the kernel devs. This is largely left up to desktop projects like Gnome or KDE.