"People who think SD was 'perfect' were simply ignoring reality," Linus Torvalds began in a succinct explanation as to why he chose the CFS scheduler written by Ingo Molnar instead of the SD scheduler written by Con Kolivas. He continued, "sadly, that seemed to include Con too, which was one of the main reasons that I never [entertained] the notion of merging SD for very long at all: Con ended up arguing against people who reported problems, rather than trying to work with them." He went on to stress the importance of working toward a solution that is good for everyone, "that was where the SD patches fell down. They didn't have a maintainer that I could trust to actually care about any other issues than his own." Update: OSNews user superstoned pointed us to the other side of the story.
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"The problem with Linus is that he thinks it's a god."
Hmm, well, I don't think quite so. But it might perhaps be that he has gotten a bit more arrogant over the years (or at least that seems to be what many people feel and which may irritate people?) from the humble chap he may have been in the early days of Linux? Although Linus often opposes Richard Stallman for his political focus and having opinions about this and that, Torvalds himself has may have gotten more political and so more like RMS too.
Then again, people like Linus (or RMS) cannot always help it. In such a position one needs to have opinions and it may simply be quite impossible to fulfill everyone's high expectations all the time. He is also a big free software "celebrity" and lots of people go ask his opinions about various things all the time and even if he would not always want that... Something that such leaders like Linus need in their position, besides of all other many qualities, is diplomatic skills, and I hope they always remember that too. Having said that, I think that Linus has usually been appreciated for his leader and people skills too.
Edited 2007-07-29 11:42
Member since:2005-08-18
"The problem with Linus is that he thinks it's a god."
I'm not a big Linux fan but that's just bullshit.
"did you remember their 'speech' about the KDE-GNOME desktops? "
Yes, so what? He spoke his mind, big deal. He's entitled to have an opinion.
"Linus may be whatever you think it is"
I'm pretty sure Linus is a he and he is the guy who decides what goes into the kernel, like it or not. It's not a democracy.
"he never wants to discuss about the deep technical problem that's being solved, instead, he screams in political terms."
This is so patently stupid that I can't even think of a comment.
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2006-06-20
The problem with Linus is that he thinks it's a god. May be he's right choosing CFS over SD, but he always speak like he knows ALL... did you remember their 'speech' about the KDE-GNOME desktops?
Linus may be whatever you think it is, but in many cases he acts like the manager at your work: he never wants to discuss about the deep technical problem that's being solved, instead, he screams in political terms.