Linus Torvalds wades into desktop row

IT IS HANDBAGS at dawn in the Linux community as Linus Torvalds put his oar into the desktop Linux row by claiming that people who felt that anyone who could spot the difference between two file schedulers at the core of the argument were deluded.

Torvalds approved a CFS scheduler written by Ingo Molnar to be included in the kernel instead of the SD scheduler written by Con Kolivas.

Kolivas said he was pulling out of Linux development because he was concerned that the whole thing was being hijacked by those who wanted to develop Linux for the corporate rather than the desktop.

Torvalds said that one of the main reasons he never entertained the notion of merging SD for very long at all was that Kolivas argued against people who reported problems, rather than trying to work with them.

Kolivas' patches fell down because they didn't have a maintainer that Torvalds could trust, such as Ingo Molnar, to actually care about any other issues than his own.

He said that a university group that did some double-blind testing of the different schedulers and that everybody agreed that both SD and CFS were better than the old, but that there was no significant difference between SD and CFS.

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