Quotes of the week

Posted Apr 19, 2007 8:02 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (guest, #33263)
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Amen, Linus. Just call it "Completely fair process/thread scheduler" then, instead of assuming it is a "Completely fair user scheduler".
Or in other words: Linux is fair. It is just very decisive about who to be fair with. ;-9

Quotes of the week

Posted Apr 19, 2007 11:37 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] (1 responses)

Fa(ir|re) is what you pay to ride a bus.

Quotes of the week

Posted Apr 19, 2007 11:47 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link]

Farewell to fairness.

Quotes of the week

Posted Apr 20, 2007 0:53 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (3 responses)

Compelling names work. Just call it Patriot Scheduler or Freedom Scheduler. :)

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Posted Apr 20, 2007 9:32 UTC (Fri) by ewan (guest, #5533) [Link] (2 responses)

The 'Motherhood and Apple Pie' scheduler - each process gets a slice, and
hands it out fairly to its children.

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Posted Apr 20, 2007 10:33 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link] (1 responses)

Just waitin' for the Full Metal Jacket Scheduler, where procs "are all equally worthless".

Pure comedy gold!

Posted Apr 20, 2007 20:09 UTC (Fri) by dion (guest, #2764) [Link]

Lets hope that noone ever writes the Beziers scheduler: "Kill them all and let init sort them out".