In this brief, nontechnical article at WEEK, Timothy Dyck summarizes several key performance enhancements coming to Linux as a result of the next major kernel release (vers. 2.6), which is anticipated in mid-2003. The areas covered by Dyck's article include improvements in kernel preemption and latency, block I/O, memory and disk management algorithms, security, and system administration.

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