Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
and, what is the linux kernel?

it's a daft, monolithic design that is suitable and faster on
single-processor systems, and that design is going to look _really_
outdated, really soon.

Well, it sounds like it works pretty well on such things as 512 CPU Altix systems, so it sounds like the suggestion that Linux is designed solely for single-processor systems and isn't suitable for multicore, hyperthreaded CPUs doesn't hold much water..

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