eWeek has a nice interview with Linus Torvalds as well as an overview of the upcoming Linux 2.6/3.0 release. “Although I have a soft spot for Jan. 5 [for the freeze] … it will be exactly 12 years since I got the PC that was to become the first Linux PC.”
At that time it became clear that the focus of the 2.5 kernel was undoubtedly the enterprise, with its improved scalability, storage support, inclusion of next-generation enhanced Internet protocols, additional security and improved laptop support.
Among the candidates ready for final merging, according to Landley, are the build option for the Linux Trace Toolkit; dynamic probes; the Zerocopy Network File System; high resolution timers; the Enterprise Volume Management System; Linux Kernel Crash Dumps; the rewrite of the console layer; PCMCIA Zoom video support; the device mapper for the Logical Volume Manager; Volume Manager large page support and page table sharing.