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Linux has long been lauded for its low hardware requirements and fast operation. It's even been crammed into cell phones, like those powered by Google's Android. Yet Linux creator Linus Torvalds seems to think the little operating system that could is getting a little soft around the middle. According to the Register, Torvalds told a roundtable during this week's LinuxCon that Linux was getting "bloated and huge," more succinctly adding, "Yes, it's a problem." As Linux has added features and support for more hardware -- necessary to compete against Microsoft and Apple -- the core of the OS, or kernel, has grown so fast that developers can't keep up with it. According to an Intel study, the performance of the Linux kernel has degraded by 2-percent with each of the last ten releases. Torvalds complained, "I mean, sometimes it's a bit sad that we are definitely not the streamlined, small, hyper-efficient kernel that I envisioned 15 years ago."
This doesn't mean that Linux is turning into Windows, of course. (Just try to run Vista on a cell phone.) Linux is still, comparatively, light weight. But if it wants to continue to compete, especially in the expanding market of smartphones, netbooks, and MIDs, developers will have to better reign in the OS -- before Torvalds has to poke another hole in Linux's belt. [From: The Register]
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Subscribe to commentsMillersonSep 24th 2009 4:55AM
Try hiring programmers for $150K/year instead of a room full of freshly graduated monkeys that don't know what they are doing. Try writing your operating system in assembly code instead of a structured and interpreted language that is grossly inefficient and slow. The problem really come down to the way that the BUSINESS of software gets done.
MikeeSep 24th 2009 1:25PM
That's great advice, if you're working on Windows or Macs.
Since most Linux distro's are free, how the hell are they going to hire $150K/year programs?
Try thinking about things before you put your moronic thoughts on the internet, please.
mkoSep 24th 2009 5:03AM
I don't know about to the kernel but some distros are defiantly bloated.
HoustonSep 27th 2009 5:23PM
Mko above makes the point I was going to make, it is mainly the distro's that get noticed as being WAY over-bloated though from Linus' point of view the kernel would look rather bloated compared to what he started with.
I think you need to look at it comparatively. Compared to Windows or Mac OS it is still VERY slim and streamlined. And when you look back to the early versions of Linux it was never the point that it was the MOST streamlined or efficient of all time, it was just that compared to the other major OS' of the time it was better.
Mainly I think that if you drew a line from where (for example) Windows and Linux were 10 years ago, the gap is definitely narrowing which sort of defeats the purpose that it was originally created for.
NirmalSep 25th 2009 12:12AM
I agree with article.Linux may not be able to compete with other OS's on compatibility and user friendliness.Therefore it should take advantage of the fact that there is no legacy software and enterprise dependence.Considering that both snow leopard and windows 7 are faster and leaner than their predecessors users have understood that this is the only way forward.Ubuntu 8 has shorter battery life and responsiveness than my windows XP on my microPC (Wibrain).This is the wrong trend...