Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Sep 2007 20:01 UTC, submitted by highwayman
"It's over. The magic is gone. The dream is dead. The egg has fallen off the wall and no amount of 'sudo' super glue can put his pieces back together again. I'm referring, of course, to the not-so-recent departure of Con Kolivas from the Linux kernel development community. Con - that champion of all things desktop centric - hung-up his keyboard this summer, the victim of an ideological rift within the Linux community." Update: And the first rebuttal appeared.
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2005-07-23
I'm at a bit of a loss to understand where all the vitriol about Linux's scheduling "issues" is coming from. I use Linux exclusively at home and I haven't managed to persuade Amarok to skip in recent memory - this includes "make -j4" which pegs my dual-core box nicely. And that's just a plain 2.6.21 kernel with a few unrelated patches (fbsplash and whatnot).
Meanwhile my Windows (XP) box at work is _shocking_. Earlier this week it managed to turn my music into a fart every time a dialog box opened. I was running two CPU-bound processes so the CPU was close to pegged (again, dual-core machine, but double the RAM of my box at home) but surely it could find some spare cycles for a freaking dialog box?
And I have lost count of the number of times it's ceased responding for up to a minute in similar circumstances (Explorer is particularly bad for this - oddly Firefox remains quite responsive).
So in short, I find vanilla Linux to be head and shoulders above the common alternative. I've flirted with -ck kernels in the past and found them good, but I don't think they're necessary to beat the competition - Linux left them behind some time ago.