2003 Kernel Summit: requirements panel [LWN.net]

2003 Kernel Summit: requirements panel

Posted Jul 31, 2003 20:40 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
Parent article: 2003 Kernel Summit: requirements panel

IMHO the most important, nobody cares about evolving the drivers model to something even better!... when can we see in a meeting like this representatives of NVIDEA, ATI, VIA or CREATIVE?
Who really needs 32GBs of memory now?,... 0,0001% of users?,... it could run all usefull applications bundled in a normal server/desktop distro like Red Hat or Mandrake, AT LEAST 4 TIMES OF ALL, AND AT THE SAME TIME!!...
To take real advantage of that, you dont only need 64 bits but also certainly more than one very powerful CPU in a parallel configuration.

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2003 Kernel Summit: requirements panel

Posted Aug 4, 2003 13:42 UTC (Mon) by nukes (guest, #10303) [Link]

Yes, but for enterprise and e-commerce, 32gb of ram normally is required on some machine, for example, the database server for a airline/big multinational. They do thousands of transactions per second, and have a lot of records to keep in RAM. Also other things like fileservers and other network services benifit from more RAM as you move up to larger scale networks. For the people running Linux in their bedroom, or on a samba server somewhere in a small office, they don't need that sort of hardware, but in some cases, other people do.