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Ars Technica Interviews Robert Love
functor writes "Ars Technica has interviewed kernel hacker Robert M. Love of MontaVista/Ximian fame. He covers current and future developments in the Linux kernel and on the desktop, particularly concerning the Linux process scheduler and its enhancements for system responsiveness and also his work toward Project Utopia, an effort to make Linux's device management on the (GNOME) desktop transparent and seamless. (Robert Love is the principal hacker who worked on kernel preemption for the Linux 2.6 kernel.)"
...is a bad idea. Who are the users to think their trivial tasks are more important than the kernel's?
I was on the linux-kernel mailing list and all I got was spam from Microsoft trying to sell me OS enlargement pills and spam from Intel trying to sell 7 minute SMT support (if it doesn't work in 7 minutes they throw in the extra minute for free.)
I haven't had enough sleep, because that headline came out as "Slashdot Interviews Robot Love". I thought we were going to have the interesting story of the worlds first robot pornstar.
Oh well, back to my deranged little world...
People that believe in their opinions don't post AC.
0(1) is a "term" from computer science.
Are you sure it's a "term"? I could have sworn it was just a term.
What the hell are you on about man? KDE does use libraries -- Just not the ones GNOME uses. And here, I see we have yet another mass-manufactured windows hater who says that generic uniformity of interface is a bad thing. Personally, I would rather have all my applications have similar dialogs, etc and be as similar as possible in operation (hence why Windows is actually reasonable sometimes, and why I use KDE) More than that, point out 3 examples of public whining the KDE team has made about GNOME. I haven't seen anything on their website. Meh. People like you make me want to go back to DOS. :D
For a minute, I was honestly wondering why on earth Ars would interview Rob Lowe.
Cheers,
IT
Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
not to complain, but I remember one of the first beta lists I ever was on was for the product called "Microsoft Project Utopia" which apparently was the internal code name of the development project later to be released as "Microsoft Bob".
Just thought you'd find this interesting ehhe
> as long as you are a Linux guru
Don't sabotog your argument with such language.
I can show you a whole bunch of people who use Linux as a desktop and aren't computer experts. The bulk of the Slashdot userbase.
I'm not a Linux guru but I certanlly use it for my desktop. Cmdr ("Do I LOOK like I could make a Linux Destro?") Taco is yet annother example.
It dosen't take a computer expert to pull up a shell SU into root start up the Linux config tools and recompile the Linux kernel.
Nither dose it take a Linux guru to build Linux from scratch or a PC expert to build a PC or an automotive expert to change your oil.
But....
Grandma dosen't change her oil she takes it into the shop and they do it.
I could build my own table.. Not that difficult. But it's enough work that I'd rather buy one premade.
That is how it is with Linux right now.
MOST people could run it but for most people it's a lot of work.
I don't actually exist.