On 12/13/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
James Wilkinson wrote: > Roo wrote: > >>Saying that software which fully utilises the CPU has a DEFECT >>is witless drivelling of the worst kind. > > > Mike McCarty wrote: > >>It is not, because Linux is not intended to utilize the CPU like that. > > That is an extraordinary claim. Absolutely extraordinary. It seems perfectly natural to me. > Are you *seriously* suggesting that Linux computers are not meant to run > processor-intensive code? Read what I wrote very carefully. I said that *LINUX* is not intended to utilize the CPU like that. I said nothing about applications which might be written for Linux. I said that the OS itself is not supposed to be CPU intensive. That seems perfectly natural and unremarkable to me.
Apperent disambigation issues here between Linux as an OS and Linux as the kernel. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud
