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To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
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Subject: Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not
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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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