[openbeos] Re: Off-Topic: Con Kolivas quits Linux. He should know Haiku

"...I'd love to tell them all to suddenly flood lkml with their reports of
failed boots with various kernels, hardware disappearing, stopping working
suddenly, memory disappearing, trying to use software suspend and having
your balls blown off by your laptop, and so on."

I laughed so much at this! :-)

Anyway, talking about scheduling and nice command, instead of having an O(1)
scheduler, which I'm not a fan of, why
not having a scheduler that gets it right 95% of the time, as Con says in
his interview, and then give the user
the possibility to choose which application should get more attention by the
CPU by simply right clicking on the top bar
of the window application, instead of having to open a terminal and use
nice? This would allow user to decide which
application would slow down under heavy load by simpling do some 'nice
clicking' on it :-).
Even 'stop' an application, instead of closing it.

Did BeOS have something like that?

Anyway, I think Con will go with Ubuntu. They might come up with a
forked/patched linux kernel desktop oriented.

Salvo

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