Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932687AbVJCUaq (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:30:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932688AbVJCUap (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:30:45 -0400 Received: from free.hands.com ([83.142.228.128]:22496 "EHLO free.hands.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932687AbVJCUao (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:30:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:30:37 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: Joe Bob Spamtest Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? Message-ID: <20051003203037.GG8548@lkcl.net> References: <20051002204703.GG6290@lkcl.net> <20051002230545.GI6290@lkcl.net> <54300000.1128297891@[10.10.2.4]> <20051003011041.GN6290@lkcl.net> <434170E1.60208@spamtest.viacore.net> <20051003185804.GB8548@lkcl.net> <43418834.6070400@spamtest.viacore.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43418834.6070400@spamtest.viacore.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-hands-com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: lkcl@lkcl.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1157 Lines: 26 On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:36:20PM -0700, Joe Bob Spamtest wrote: > The point being: If and when the industry switches its focus to highly > parallel systems, Linux will shortly follow. joe: hi, thanks for responding. i believe this to be a very sound strategy, and given the technical expertise of the kernel developers i have confidence in their abilities to pull that off. personally i find that i like a bit of a run-up and/or advance notice of major paradigm shifts. on the basis that other people might also want to know, i initiated this discussion yesterday and it seems like forever already! :) l. oh, and joe? my wife is the one with the high horse, not me. she qualified for the national british dressage championships which was last month, and came 17th in the country, at elementary level, on her beautiful pony, blue. i am very proud of her. http://www.bdchampionships.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/