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Linux Gains Support for NUMA

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the big-iron-at-your-hip dept.

soosterh writes "CNet has an article about a NUMA patch from IBM. It says that the improvement adds some support in Linux for nonuniform memory access, or NUMA, a design for higher-end servers with many processors. Linus Torvalds, the original creator of the operating system and still its top authority, accepted the update this month into version 2.5, the current test version of the software."

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  1. Re:Linux lacks democracy by Anonymous+Hack · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    OpenBSD doesn't have a democracy. It has a benevolent (heh) dictatorship. This is a Good Thing to a certain extent, because it keeps a project on-track. It gives it some level of direction, as opposed to letting things bloat... and bloat... and bloat... You can't compare open source to countries, because it's a lot easier to fork source and make your own branch than it is to revolt and declare independence. That said, sometimes the dictator can be a stubborn little bitch, and there's not much anyone can do. But that's why Linux users have the Alan Cox branches, and OpenBSD users have MicroBSD and other "unofficial" patched versions. It's no big deal.

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