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Significant Interactivity Boost in Linux Kernel
An anonymous reader writes "The Linux kernel team is at it again. Linux creator Linus Torvalds recently proposed a patch to offer interactive processes a boost, greatly benefiting the X desktop, as well as music and movie players. O(1) scheduler author Ingo Molnar merged Linus' patch into his own interactivity efforts, the end result nothing short of amazing... The upcoming 2.6 kernel is looking to be a desktop user's dream come true."
You mean here in the year 2003 Linux is going to get a decent desktop, like Macintosh got in 1984 or Windows in 1995? I'll believe it when I see it. Any operating system which half the time can't cut and paste between apps is still adolescent.
Does this mean software will be easier to install also?
He posts content-free drivel and gets modded up. Where's the problem?
This is slashdot, this is normal here.
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If this patch is causing great excitement, then I can only assume linux is now more responsive on the desktop than windows.
Not as long as Xwindows exists. We have VNC, why does X need to go through TCP/IP to draw a window? This is why Apple dumped X and wrote their own system independently of X. X is outdated. Once KDE gains enough market share, they should just dump X in favor of performance. When a Linux GUI can use things like hardware acceleration, only then will it outperform windows. Until then, it doesn't have a chance.
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The upcoming 2.6 kernel is looking to be a desktop user's dream come true
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I cannot tell you how long I've been waiting for something like this. As an avid Microsoft fan, one of my biggest beefs was the inferior performance of the Linux GUI and its components.
Well I hope you can wait another 20 years or so, because that's about how long it's going to take.
Improvements to the kernel which fascilitate a performance boost to interactive processes? This is like 1 of 498 things that needs to be implemented to be as functional as the NT varients within a desktop-object paradigm.
How you can expect object-oriented behavior from an OS that lives and breathes C is beyond me however. Unix is antiquated, and cumbersome. With 500plus megs of RAM on desktop machines, there's no excuse anymore for sacrificing good design for performance considerations. A COM/CORBA type approach to computing is eons away from being implemented within the UNIX environment.
Sure UNIX is fun, and it has a rich history, and it's neat if you like hacking c and batch running your own stuff, but it is several generations behind what we should be using in an OS. Even NeXT is antiquated in it's approach, and you guys are still talking about how great it is to use X windows? You're fucking insane, all of you!
At least the other 99% of the computing population can use windows and isn't forced to live in your very strange world. They all have to pay the MS tithe however
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Damn OS bigots. My desktop runs Windows XP. Heres the setup:
1.6Ghz P4(Lower end)
NVidia TNT2M64(Definitely low end)
1GB ram(ok, I overkill here but performance was ok even at 256MB)
The Windows NT series operating systems are quite good. Reliable, well performing and productive in general. It may be easier to trash it entirely(ask me about my NT4 permission troubles someday) but, the point is, set up with half a brain the NT series is solid.
Linus Torvalds' Ninnle Linux kernal rules!
Fuck Hooty Linux!
Stick your Amiga straight up your ass where it belongs.
16 = 2^4 which is exactly 1/8th of 32 bits. Its not a design flaw its math.
How do rate anything but "1, Abhorent, slimy, under the bridge troll?" Certainly, you are no "5, interesting."
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