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Old 09-11-2009, 03:55 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Curingaa View Post
There's lots of benchmarks, and a text from Linus itself saying that were a change in the development that made the kernel faster (i think that the tux logo changing its linked to that) and yeah once installed im my machine i noticed a performance improvement...
The logo was changed in 2.6.29 to raise awareness of the plight of the Tazmainian Devil and its facial tumour disease. It was the mascot for the 2009 Linux Conf in Oz.

I don't believe it's got anything to do with the speed of the kernel.
 
Old 09-11-2009, 04:03 PM   #17
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nvm about my txz question btw, it works with pkgtools lol
 
  


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