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Fork the Linux Kernel?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bad-ideas dept.

Joe Barr writes "Fork the kernel? Are you crazy? A blog entry on InfoWorld.com urged the Linux community to fork the kernel into desktop and server versions because, according to the author, all Linus Torvalds cares about is big iron. Sorry, but that's both wrong and stupid."

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  1. Self-Promotion by 3278 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I sure do wish people would stop submitting their own blog postings to Slashdot. What is this, Digg? I guess next time I want some serious traffic to my message forum, I'll post about some technical issue and pump it into the Firehose.

  2. Bringing Linux into the ground by bradbury · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have twice brought the Linux kernel to its knees. To the extent that it was not even able to move the mouse cursor around on the screen. And I would argue that a "desktop" system that cannot move the mouse cursor around is not a "desktop" system.

    And it is very easy to reproduce this. Create an 8 GB swap partition. Then execute a self-reinvoking shell script. Mind you I am *not* reccomeding one try this. This is a recipe for dragging ones machine into the depths of hell.

    The fact that the designers of Linux have failed to perform sufficient "limits testing" (and performance under stress on the desktop) is a testimony to what they really need to do. It is simple, "Break Linux" and have it still perform.