Linus Pooh-Pooh's Real-Time Patch

An anonymous reader submits "Speaking with CNet via email, Linus Torvalds appears to be in no hurry to accept the latest real-time patches from embedded specialist MontaVista into the mainstream kernel, at least not "at this time." Nontheless, MontaVista's new open-source real-time Linux project could broadly expand commercial opportunities for the open source OS, especially in telecom initially, where real-time Linux will likely play on "both ends of the wire." For example, Linux is already making progress in smartphones."

is Linus ever in a hurry?

[Anonymous Coward]

- i don't think so!

Re:first post!!!

[thomasa]

Not exactly real time response here.

Re:MontaVista Rocks

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

I guess Linus does not realize the full potential of what real time functionality can do to Linux.

Yes, I'm sure he has no idea...

Blackadder quote (Sorry, I couldn't resist)

[lxs]

Gen. Melchett: Is this true, Blackadder? Did Captain Darling pooh-pooh you?

Cpt. Blackadder: Well, perhaps a little.

Gen. Melchett: Well then, damn it all, how much more evidence do you need? The pooh-poohing alone is a court-martial offence!

Cpt. Blackadder: I can assure you, sir, that the pooh-poohing was purely circumstantial.

Gen. Melchett: Well, I hope so, Blackadder. You know, if there's one thing I've learned from being in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a major: got pooh-poohed; made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh -- he pooh-poohed it. Fatal error, because it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment -- morale totally destroyed ... by pooh-pooh!

Re:Patents ?

[valkraider]

and that it will give high priority tasks all the time they need.

DOS did this back in the 80's....

Re:Might not be in a hurry....

[Elwood P Dowd]

Oh. That's exactly what you said. I can't read.

Another unexplained submission?

[retinaburn]

First we had a post on Hibernate [slashdot.org] with no explanation. Then a post on OQO [slashdot.org] and now we have one on 'Linux'. When will the madness end?!?!? ;)

Re:Might not be in a hurry....

[skraps]

Maybe he's just waiting for the right time, not the earliest time.

Sooo.. Linus is real-time, but Linux is not.

(yes, my jokes are that lame.)

Poo Poos?

[Swamii]

What kind of smooth-it-over headline is this? Poo Poo? If this were Bill Gates instead of Linus, we'd say he's "blatantly ignoring", "throwing aside", "totally dismissing". But Poo Poo??

News flash:

[lpangelrob2]

Tigger said to be hopping mad in protest; Piglet leading soft-spoken sit-in. Honey at 5:00.

Re:MontaVista Rocks

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you Zapman Webster!

I just wasn't aware that the plural of OS was OSen.

Good for you!

[Cryptnotic]

Here, have a cookie. [wikipedia.org]

Re:Linus "appears to be in no hurry to accept"

[dj245]

Am I missing something obviou here?

Yes, an s

Re:Might not be in a hurry....

[DAldredge]

I am almost sure that Linus stated policy on IP violations is to not give a flying fuck till someone bitches.

GNU/Hurd

[Anonymous Coward]

Or, if you want a Free Software system, try the Hurd [slashdot.org] (Scheduled for completion circa 2047).

Re:Blackadder quote (Sorry, I couldn't resist)

[twoslice]

Yes, it was a cunning plan....

inflected English

[nomadic]

People throw around bloat with great abandon, and usually without any real rationale behind the term.

My OS is full-featured. Yours has feature creep. His is bloated.

Re:Might not be in a hurry....

[Anonymous Coward]

and I can grasp a hell of a lot of complexity

I, for one, welcome our new complexity grasping overload.