Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: > > On May 25, 2005, at 10:03 AM, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > >Did you add pre-emptive kernel patched to the Linux system? That > >adds a > >lot in apparent responsiveness. > > Uh, no. You don't add "customer patches" to Windows XP or OS X in > order to make them "sufficiently responsive".
Really? Ever heard of TweakUI or PowerTools? I am unaware of anything simialr for MacOS, because I have never used MacOS in a daily setting. Ever heard of Service Pack 3, for XP, which adds a bunch of stuff? These things are done all the time. However, with Linux it is much more obvious what you are doing, instead of trusting some opaque binary blob. > I don't want to do this. I shouldn't have to do this. I refuse to > do this. Fine. But don't complain when your windows system grinds to a halt due to fragmentation, or some ohter issue that some simple third party tool will take care of. (also note that the kernel patches in question have been rolled into the 2.6 line, which seems to be what everyone other than me runs. However, I still see the Linux world as 2.4, because I don't trust 2.6 for production yet). > I don't want to play with my OS. I want to do stuff with my computer. This is one I have a slight problem with. Is Linux a hobbyist OS? Or is it a consumer OS? Is it both? Dualistic roles? Server class, even? Trinaric roles? Interesting question. I think that answer might be determined by how you look at it. > >Which leaves MS Windows as the only major non-UNIX based system left. > >And Intel as the only ``pure'' CISC chip maker left. Hmm... > > Intel is not CISC. The RISC/CISC dichotomy is effectively > meaningless as almost all higher end microprocessors do internal > translation to RISC micro-operations. Hence the ``pure'' in quotes. I am aware that RISC/CISC is becoming meaningless as they chips blur towards each other. > The only microprocessor which still probably qualifies as CISC is an > ARM. I was totaly unaware of that. I thought ARM was RISC. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
