On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:14:33AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > 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.
I've finally finished the article and its pretty interesting, and a little dis-heartening too. I've gone off now and read a bit of his comments in the latest patch about how the scheduler works, and it looks pretty interesting to me. I'll have to compile one and see what I think... sorry to see him go. A
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