Re: AMIGA will use Linux, but Linux has several "multimedia-deficie

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 10 Jul 1999 12:09:05 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 allbery@kf8nh.apk.net wrote:

> I don't see that; but I see a lot of Linux types assuming that their
> invocation of "Linux" means that only "standard" (whatever that is!)
> Linux kernels need apply.
>
> My reading is that the technical types are saying "Linux" to the
> marketing types and the general public because they know that "RTLinux"
> would only confuse them.

Good for them if it's so. But in that case benchmarks on the standard
kernel simply do not apply.

> "Linux" is an umbrella, not a monolith. (And this is a Good Thing.)

Yup. Until the moment when you are trying to benchmark the thing - then
you have to decide which kernel to look at ;-)

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