Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Sep 2009 15:34 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
During the roundtable discussion at LinuxCon this year, Linus Torvalds made some pretty harsh remarks about the current state of the Linux kernel, calling it "huge and bloated", and that there is no plan in sight to solve the problem. At the same time, he also explained that he is very happy with the current development process of the kernel, and that his job has become much easier.
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Right, and there is not much else you can do with it at an acceptable speed. I guess it still does not have a unified buffer cache, does it? Or fine grained locking for SMP systems?
You could as well just download the UNIX V7 source code and tell us how slim it is. But the world has changed, and the 8 core 64 GB RAM world (what we will be running at home in a short time) is just more complex. And Linux (or NetBSD/FreeBSD) runs terribly much better on my quad core home machine than OpenBSD ever will.