Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 86.130.196.52]
on September 18, 2007 05:30 PM
I suggest OpenBSD, I hear its leader is really reasonable and not arrogant at all.
Seriously though, I think this is mostly a lost-in-translation thing. Linus is a huge geek (of course), very pragmatic, Finns in general tend to be pretty matter of fact, and although he's fluent in English it isn't his first language. These factors combine to make him a bit tactless at times. E.g. concerning the scheduler flamewar, Linus simply saw the technical merits and maintainer histories and made a choice based on those without really considering the politics of the situation. Sure, if he'd been more conciliatory, and ideally added pluggable scheduler support as suggested, then maybe this whole dramafest could have been avoided. That doesn't mean he isn't open to ideas or that there's some sort of kernel old boy's network keeping out outsiders. For what it's worth I'm running Ingo's CFS currently and it's definitely an improvement over the stock scheduler for desktop stuff.
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Re: Don't fork Linux because of Linus
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 86.130.196.52] on September 18, 2007 05:30 PMSeriously though, I think this is mostly a lost-in-translation thing. Linus is a huge geek (of course), very pragmatic, Finns in general tend to be pretty matter of fact, and although he's fluent in English it isn't his first language. These factors combine to make him a bit tactless at times. E.g. concerning the scheduler flamewar, Linus simply saw the technical merits and maintainer histories and made a choice based on those without really considering the politics of the situation. Sure, if he'd been more conciliatory, and ideally added pluggable scheduler support as suggested, then maybe this whole dramafest could have been avoided. That doesn't mean he isn't open to ideas or that there's some sort of kernel old boy's network keeping out outsiders. For what it's worth I'm running Ingo's CFS currently and it's definitely an improvement over the stock scheduler for desktop stuff.
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