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Non-Deathmatch: Preempt v. Low-Latency Patch
LiquidPC writes: "In this whitepaper on Linux Scheduler Latency, Clark Williams of Red Hat compares the performance of two popular ways to improve kernel Linux preemption latency -- the preemption patch pioneered by MontaVista and the low-latency patch pioneered by Ingo Molnar -- and discovers that the best approach might be a combination of both."
first post bitches!
Interesting. Should be related to the article about GNOME earlier.
It is now official - HighTImes has confirmed: *BSD is for stoners.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently HighTImes confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 100 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest MadMagazine survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [microsoft.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You needn't be Wavy Gravy to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 3% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is for stoners.
Fact: Slashdot is an abomination...
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I want to say I'm completely disgusted by all the wankers who take slashdot seriously. Did you know that neither cmdrTaco nor anyone else on the slashdot moderation crew knows calculus? That fact alone should deter anyone from slashdot. Linux is a pile of shit anyway. Would you even consider paying for linux if it wasn't free? Of course not! If you think linux is so special, I have swamp land in Florida for sale. Email Me:-)
Linux_is_for_losers@hotmail.com
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Yeah.. When I read this on OSNews, I couldn't help thinking this was really old news.
Now to see it on
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OK, I am kinda scared to ask this.... What is Linux? I don't get it. I heard about Linux and how it is elite and all that, but I don't get it.
There's some sort of stuff called "Mandrake Linux" and "Red Hat Linux" and some others, but there are also "kernals" and "unstable releases" and things I don't understand. Can someone explain this to me?
I tried to get Linux for my Windows 200, Service Pack 2 machine but it didn't work. I went www.redhat.com (because I hear red hat a lot) and downloaded something called "Red Hat Linux 7.2". There were other things called "Samba" and "RPM" and some other stuff on their download page, but I didn't know what that was.
So I downloaded something from their webpage, but I couldn't install it. I tried opening it with winzip, but that didn't work. I also tried ending it with ".exe" since it didn't have a dot-something, but htat didn't work either.
I don't understand, every time I hear people talk about Linux, they say how fun it is. This isn't fun at all - it makes me feel dumb for not understanding.
Swamp land in Florida!!?!? Like the kind I could build a really successful theme park on? Cool!!
Wait.. Must stop feeding trolls... ahhh!! Can't help myself.. ARGGGHHH!!! AIYEEEE!!
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...definitely sucks ass in Linux. I don't know if it is better or worse in other OSes, but we have several dual processor machines and two quad Xeon machines at work running Linux, and it seems as though if the first processor is running at max capacity, then you're just kind of shit outta luck if you try to start a process--it sometimes takes as 5-10 seconds before it'll even notice you've tried to run something and assign it to another processor that isn't doing anything.
Does anyone else have this problem? I'm hoping it's just some kind of dumbass configuration mistake on my part and not just the way it is...
I got rid of toy OS's and machines like windows and intel and linux and got a SUN.
How yo like that, beyach
IT groupies?
Do they like.. travel around with you, worshiping the ground you walk on, and fetch your beer while you hack the kernel?
You know, the hypocracy of this site astounds me. You slam Microsoft for not treating their users right, and then you mod this poor SOB down. This is a prime chance to introduce someone to the joy of Linux, and he gets flamed and modded down.
Next week, you will be bitching about how Linux doesn't have enough popular support. Start here, damn it!! Make a difference starting with this one person!
Fsck IE! I'm using Lynx count me among the 5% and 30% respectively.
Of course, I do feel kindof naked without all the pretty pictures.. Wait, what are we arguing about again? Ohh, you said something irrelevant and stupid, so I laughed at you. Then I posted this stupid message. Laugh at me.
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