[oclug] GNU (was KDE arbitrary commands)

Raymond Wood raywood at magma.ca
Fri Jun 13 09:02:43 EDT 2003


On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:24:34PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox remarked:

> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 07:59:20AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> >     So how does the 2.6 scheduler ensure fast response time
> >     for X? I thought the issue was that by default, *nix
> >     optimizes for throughput, which means users don't get
> >     priority. 

> Well, GNU's Not Unix.  (OK, I just said that to piss people
> off...)

What's to be pissed off at?  GNU's *not* Unix  :)

We should celebrate that - it's a free/libre OS, not a
proprietary and expensive one like Unix.

Vive la difference!

My $0.02,
Raymond

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