state of Fedora kernel and Desktop use?

[Jeff Moyer]

"Valent Turkovic" <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> writes:

> 2008/10/24 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:31 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>> Sorry for quoting, but I'm not a developer, just a curious user :)
>>
>> And not to belittle your status as a user, but at some point you are
>> going to have to trust that the developers are Doing The Right Thing.
>
> I never said I don't trust them, far from it, just that I'm curious.
>
> I'm really impressed how well Fedora 9 and current rawhide work, but
> when I read CK's interview I was sad that he quit doing his patches.
> Desktop linux (Fedora included) needs all the people that it can,
> especially ones who focus also on the desktop and issues regarding
> desktop use. He claimed that desktop performance was seriously
> impaired when 2.6 kernel was released and that then nobody was even
> paying attention on desktop workloads and that enterpise workload
> patches were seriously hurting desktop performance and workloads.

You do realize that this whole Linux thing started because some
developer wanted to run UNIX on his desktop, right?  That hasn't
changed.

http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=9652

Cheers,

Jeff