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Linus Pooh-Pooh's Real-Time Patch

Posted by timothy on from the standoffish dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Speaking with CNet via email, Linus Torvalds appears to be in no hurry to accept the latest real-time patches from embedded specialist MontaVista into the mainstream kernel, at least not "at this time." Nontheless, MontaVista's new open-source real-time Linux project could broadly expand commercial opportunities for the open source OS, especially in telecom initially, where real-time Linux will likely play on "both ends of the wire." For example, Linux is already making progress in smartphones."

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  1. Re:Might not be in a hurry.... by Audacious · · Score: 0, Troll

    Reminds me of Bill Gates and the quip about nobody needing more than 64MB of memory. ;-)

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  2. mod me annoyed by happyfrogcow · · Score: 0, Troll

    I swear, people who get their submissions accepted don't know how to link. Seriously, wtf is up with the first link to http://news.search.com/search?q=red+hat&search.x=0 &search.y=0?

    there is not one mention of Real Time or Linus on that page. Come on, can't you learn to link to the story?

    Here's how you should have linked the first line:

    "Speaking with CNet via email, Linus Torvalds appears to be in no hurry to accept..."

    I find it ironic that you linked "appears" in correlation to Linus to a page that had "Linus" appearing nowhere in the page.