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Offline sam

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This is an aspect of FOSS that is regaining some measure of interest: for years, it was considered that writing production-ready FOSS meant lean and mean software. However, recent events have shown that, in the case of the Linux kernel, this is no longer exactly true: performance is dropping slowly yet steadily.

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/linux_performance_linux_slow_bloated
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Re: Linux performance: is Linux becoming just too slow and bloated?
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2010, 15:44 »
Time to change then, Sam? ;)
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Re: Linux performance: is Linux becoming just too slow and bloated?
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2010, 21:32 »
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Re: Linux performance: is Linux becoming just too slow and bloated?
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2010, 09:40 »
It was worth a try. ;D
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Re: Linux performance: is Linux becoming just too slow and bloated?
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2010, 14:42 »
less slow and bloated than windows though.
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