____/ John Bailo, Texeme.Construct on Monday 17 September 2007 23:45 : \____
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2007/09/desktop_linux_s.html?source=rss
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> <quote>
> It's over. The magic is gone. The dream is dead. The egg has fallen
> off the wall and no amount of "sudo" super glue can put his pieces
> back together again.
>
> I'm referring, of course, to the not-so-recent departure of Con
> Kolivas from the Linux kernel development community. Con - that
> champion of all things desktop centric - hung-up his keyboard this
> summer, the victim of an ideological rift within the Linux community.
>
> On one side, you have Linus Torvalds and his true Linux "geekerati"
> underlings. These guys are mostly concerned with promoting Linux
> within the enterprise - i.e. Projects involving lots of parallel CPUs,
> massive storage and high-end TPC results. On the other side you have
> guys like Con who made it their mission to bring Linux on par with
> Windows and Mac OS X in the desktop arena. Things like smooth playback
> of digital content and better memory management for interactive users
> are what fuel their inner Linux fires.
> </quote>
Surely this man does not know what he writes about because he does not take
account of the *full* story. Linus and other kernel developers have weighed in
on this issue. I like CK, but the CK patch was apparently very inelegant and
Con, being someone who is not the most professional developer (he is in
medicine), needed some help from others. CFS seemed like the way to go whilst
the CK patch became a bit of a burden. Linus had to find a polite way and
resolution to end this and Ingo worked on CFS. CK's patch, which is
peripheral, was bound to become irrelevant at this stage. It was only a matter
as time. As I understand it, Con decided to leave and he made a big stink
about by blaming big companies and other kernel hackers. The APC interview
(Australian site... that's where Con lives) had people hear just one side of
the story.
Forking Linux ius a huge task (and therefore expensive). It won't happen any
time soon. Tweaks and patches thatbare vendor-specific are more likely. Just
watch Oracle.
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