On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:34:51AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I don't really think this is OT, albeit not directly Debian related. >>> Con Kolivas, the kernel hacker who authored a better scheduler, recently >>> decided to quit. >>> >>> Loss for Linux (and Linus) >>> >>> Here's his reasoning. >>> >> >> http://apcmag.com/6735/interview_con_kolivas
crap... slashdotted... but I have gotten through the first page... I can sympathise with him... read my pre-first-page-reading comments below. > > It'd be nice if a coder of Con's caliber were to get interested in the > HURD. I think that project has a lot of potential, but I'm afeared it has > little future without some motivated developers. I kept trying to dabble in the HURD, but keep not having the time to get past a basic install... Somewhere I've got a basic qemu image for it.... I'll have to fire it up again. I was thinking about this just yesterday after reading the commentary on the death of LUGS on /. (I know, I know...) http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/23/1357259 I've used linux for about 3 years now and I love it, but its already becoming routine... I guess for my day-to-day work that's good as I need a system that just works. But I want to keep those "I love computing" fires stoked with something interesting and challenging... In some ways, for me, linux is too successful as its too good, too easy to use, too reliable. I've said it before, I often find myself looking for things to do on my machines and not really finding anything... Back to post-reading-first-page: So Con's got a big point in the first page... the desktop PC has been co-opted and then ignored by the enterprise folks. Don't ge tme wrong, I think its cool that I can set up and run tiny versions of enterprise solutions on my little home LAN, but it may explain my personal frustration with it in the long run. I want to regain the excitement I had when when I figured out how to swap the C-64 rom into ram (there was a parallel bank of ram and you could flip some bit somewhere and you'd be suddenly running in ram instead of the rom) and start tweaking the OS/BASIC interpreter. It started with fun stuff like just changing the "READY" prompt to some other five character word. But from there, you could do anything... write your own OS one piece at a time if you wanted. Or make it count BASIC lines by letters instead of numbers, or ... meh... whoknows. BUt it was there and fun and now I'm rambling. later A
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