Well, this settles it for me

Posted Sep 7, 2009 8:03 UTC (Mon) by Cato (guest, #7643)
In reply to: Well, this settles it for me by andreashappe
Parent article: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements

So the whole focus on netbooks is a waste of time, then? The majority of laptops and desktops these days cost less than 1000 Euros/USD - in fact when building a new dual-core desktop system for casual web surfing I found it hard to spend more than 400 euros, and the resulting system is far faster than really needed. And then there's the whole embedded space of course, and all the people introduced to Linux by putting it on PCs that are too old to run a recent Windows version well, or by turning an old PC into a small server.

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Well, this settles it for me

Posted Sep 7, 2009 8:11 UTC (Mon) by andreashappe (subscriber, #4810) [Link] (3 responses)

> So the whole focus on netbooks is a waste of time, then?

I was talking about _mainline_. Pray read the rest of my post (where I mentined out-of-tree patches). And AFAIK embedded systems often have out-of-tree patchsets for their architectures.

> The majority of laptops and desktops these days cost less than 1000 Euros/USD

If some scheduler thing would be added to the kernel this would take 2-3 release cycles (at least).. by which time multi-core systems are even more common than today.

cheers, Andreas