Key Linux kernel dev quits

Robert Hallock (Thrax) Corporations killing Linux on the desktop.

July 25, 2007 8:37 PM ET in News,

Con Kolivas, in an interview with APCMag.com has said that performance with Linux on the desktop is many times worse than it could be. Due to most of Linux’s primary financiers coming from the corporate sector, a bulk of the work on the kernel was being put towards enterprise resources, such as running eleventy-two billion CPUs at once. He said that Linux, as a result, is sorely lacking on the desktop compared to what it could be.

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2 Comments:

  1. airbornflght
    26 Jul '07, 2:34 am

    Why doesn't he branch?

  2. drasnor
    26 Jul '07, 3:18 am

    Because maintaining an entire kernel tree is a whole lot harder than just submitting patches. Linux works fine on the desktop for me, but then again I turn off all those wacky enterprise optimizations when I configure and compile my kernels (e.g. support for single files larger than 1TB, memory mapping for >16GB of RAM, hot-swappable CPU and memory support, PCI hotplug, online kernel unloading/reloading, etc.)

    -drasnor

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