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Robert Love, Preemptible Kernel Maintainer Interviewed

Posted by michael on from the better-than-a-dayplanner dept.

Tom F writes: "LinuxDevices did an interesting interview with Robert Love, the maintainer of the Linux preemptible kernel along with MontaVista. It is an exciting read and has Robert's usual wit and insight."

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  1. You just can't win by wowbagger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you maintain different kernels, people say "OHMYGOD we are forking we will all DIE"

    If you roll changes into a kernel and make it unstable, people say "OHMYGOD production kernel's not stable we will all DIE"

    RTFA and lighten up. The patches are being considered for 2.5. They haven't been ruled out.

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