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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."
I'm glad you asked - I _have_ written X applications. Albeit using QT. Even C# and VB perform better when it comes to GUI. About the only thing slower than X is Java.
Now THAT was a flamebait. I can't believe my other comment was moderated flamebait. I tell people the truth - X needs change - and they moderate it as flamebait?!!! Moderate this one as flamebait not my other comment. This is nuts. If everyone is supposed to love EVERYTHING about Linux, then how is any change going to happen? It's the zealots that ruin everything. If you make the slightest negative comment about some part of linux, implying that it needs change, the zealots will instantly attack you with some knee-jerk reaction. I wish the Linux community was more open to change and more willing to have conversations about how to improve something the OS instead of turning everything into a religious argument about how much better the Linux religion is than Microsoft. The point is Microsoft's GUIs are faster - accept it and learn from it. Copy them. Whatever, just make it better. Don't deny it because you don't like to hear that Microsoft is better at something. That won't help anybody.