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Linus actually has quite a history of shortchanging big iron. He used to say that SMP was too exotic to worry about, then he said the same about NUMA, clusters, etc. He and many of the other senior maintainers have consistently ignored or opposed many requests for big-iron features such as kernel crash dumps, robust tracing, or multipath I/O. Linux's design point is probably best described as something you can buy from Dell, or could have bought within the last few years. Not only does the high end get short shrift except from the vendors themselves (e.g. IBM), but if you have anything but the most vanilla CPU, chipset, video card etc. you'll probably find it hard to get your concerns addressed. Saying that Linus ignores the desktop is very nearly the opposite of the truth.

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