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LinuxCon: Kernel roundtable covers more than just bloat

LinuxCon: Kernel roundtable covers more than just bloat

Posted Oct 1, 2009 10:26 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670)
In reply to: LinuxCon: Kernel roundtable covers more than just bloat by dowdle
Parent article: LinuxCon: Kernel roundtable covers more than just bloat

Considering what 5% extra performance costs in hardware in the mainstream segment, running a year old kernel would give you the same benefit (if you don't care about the newest features). That's not a good situation!

Regarding the video, you can wget this link and feed it in mplayer/xine if you have a recent ffmpeg with VP6 installed.


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