Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Oct 2002 03:53:32 +0400 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA)) |
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Rob Landley wrote:
>The new uncharted territory for Linux, and the next major order-of-magnitude >jump in the installed base, is the desktop. A kernel that could make a >credible stab at the desktop would certainly be 3.0 material. And the work >that matters for the desktop is LATENCY work. Not SMP, not throughput, not >more memory. Latency. O(1), deadline I/O scheduler, rmap, preempt, shorter >clock ticks, > > > I must confess to thinking that namespace work is the most strategic upcoming battle between Linux and Windows, but probably I am biased in this regard.;-) MS seems to think it also, given the rumors that OFS is where they are shifting their focus away from the browser and over to for Longhorn....
Hans
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