Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Jul 1999 12:09:05 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: AMIGA will use Linux, but Linux has several "multimedia-deficie ncies" |
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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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