quick note on Fedora

[Derek Atkins]

gboyce at badbelly.com writes:

> Redhat also added NTPL (new threading library) support into the kernel 
> and it's program.  It's probably the biggest change to the kernel, and 
> ended up speeding things up nicely.

FWIW, NTPL was in RH9.  It's caused me no end of grief trying to debug
a threaded application.  Hopefully fedora will work better when I
decide to upgrade..  But it's been a royal PITA trying to debug my
mythtv box due to NTPL.

-derek

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