Linux will be a more responsive desktop shortly

[Khyron320]

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2637_video&num=1

If anybody is familiar with building a kernel and installing this patch a guide would be awesome

 

[ModestGamer]

If you want a responsive OS, try this one

www.haiku-os.org

I wonder how much manipulation of the interupt handler was made to get the responsiveness up ?

I'll poke around in the code and report back what I find. I expect to find a ripoff of some code I know somewhat well. It still doesn't fix the other issues with linux.

 

[Net]

If anybody is familiar with building a kernel and installing this patch a guide would be awesome

http://www.linuxhq.com/patch-howto.html
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/applying-patches.txt

 

[KeypoX]

good news, was just gonna post this.

So now we just gotta wait for the new kernel to be updated with it? Then we can install new kernel.

 

[Nothinman]

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...37_video&num=1

If anybody is familiar with building a kernel and installing this patch a guide would be awesome

Interesting. I haven't really had any interactivity performance issues with Linux, but any improvements will be welcome.

If you want a responsive OS, try this one

www.haiku-os.org

I wonder how much manipulation of the interupt handler was made to get the responsiveness up ?

I'll poke around in the code and report back what I find. I expect to find a ripoff of some code I know somewhat well. It still doesn't fix the other issues with linux.

Really? I'm going to switch to an Alpha quality OS with virtually no app support because it can spin teacups faster?

 

[ModestGamer]

Interesting. I haven't really had any interactivity performance issues with Linux, but any improvements will be welcome.



Really? I'm going to switch to an Alpha quality OS with virtually no app support because it can spin teacups faster?

Really are you always such an ass???. Its pretty obvious they put in a more aggresive interupt, with code likely lifted from the haiku project or the BEOS. I am awaiting seeing the actual patch.

I posted it as a retort to a snappy OS. why don't you try it instead of running your mouth.

BTW there is work in motion to add X and Wine as a big discussion with the outcome leaning to brining in both to solve the application issue.

Its also a pretty good browsing OS for low power machines.

the term is preemptive multitasking. If your a assembler guy we call this the watchdog time and it sets a interupt on te mcu to prevent code stalling and deadlocking. Pretty important in embeeded apps.

 

[Nothinman]

Really are you always such an ass???. Its pretty obvious they put in a more aggresive interupt, with code likely lifted from the haiku project or the BEOS. I am awaiting seeing the actual patch.

The patch is linked in the story... And AFAICT it doesn't touch any interrupt handlers. It just automatically creates task-groups per-tty.

I posted it as a retort to a snappy OS. why don't you try it instead of running your mouth.

I've booted it in VMware a few times in the past, but then quickly realized it was pretty useless.

BTW there is work in motion to add X and Wine as a big discussion with the outcome leaning to brining in both to solve the application issue.

So native X apps will be second class citizens, just like on OS X. Not exactly an appealing scenario.

 

[Khyron320]

If you want a responsive OS, try this one

www.haiku-os.org

or i could install windows 3.11 again and have the same support base of applications. Haiku is not practical it is nothing more than a learning tool right now. Maybe in 10 years it will be viable.

 

[Khyron320]

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html

make sure you have a rescue disk before u try any of this.