A technical article on IBM's DeveloperWorks site characterizes the pending new stable Linux kernel as “a big step for Linux on enterprise servers as well as for embedded systems,” and reviews some of the reasons. And yes, discussion suggests the new kernel could arrive with a major release number.

Here are the headings for the DeveloperWorks article, which includes code samples:

• Linux 2.6 highlights
• New scheduler
• Kernel preemption
• Improved threading model and support for Native POSIX Threads Library (NPTL)
• VM changes
• Driver porting to Linux 2.6
• Memory management changes
• Workqueue interface
• Interrupt routine changes
• Unified device model
• Conclusion

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