On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 08:52, Mark Howard wrote: > Hi, > When the debian-desktop project was started, there was a lot of talk > about creating kernel images patched for improved performance. Most > people agreed that this would be a good idea. Unfortunately no such > packages seem to have been created. > Is anybody working on this? What problems are stopping the packages > from being created?
Anthony Towns has mentioned a few times that he thinks sarge will use Linux 2.6, which comes with most of the goodies like preemption already included. We'll probably just need a separate kernel-image-preempt package or something that debian desktop can have installed by default.
