pile of new drivers only? (Score 1)

Ahhh!! A quick review of the source tree of the 2.3 developmental kernal shows just a lot of new drivers. Would someone really give me a better view on what kernel 2.4 will have?? okay big deal.. better SMP support; hardware detection; ahh yeah..faster threading, up to 4 gigabytes of RAM will be supported on Intel machines, the ability to access NFS shares , no support for the much awaited journalizing filesystems (yeah and NT 2000 won't and might never have it either :P)--uhh ah.. winModems aint supported ; completely rewritten networking layer (lets see FreeBSD claims of superior a networking stack blow up in smoke); and ooouuugghh!!! SMP functionality is awesome.... Okay cutting the Hype... What more bringeth Kernel 2.4 ? anyone?

Linux is very User-friendly, VERY!; its just very particular about its choice of friends :P