Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas

[Khaos]

Yes, Con Kolivas, developer of the -ck patchset (sys-kernel/ck-sources on Gentoo), has left the Linux kernel project. APCMag had a nice little interview with him over his reasons why.

http://apcmag.com/6735/interview_con_kolivas

Yes of course the kernel developers are fun loving, happy-go-lucky friendly people. Just look at any interview with Linus and see how he views himself.

This made me lol. Does anyone else see Linus as sort of a douche sometimes? He can be very condescending, haha.

[Garfunkel]

yeah, it's kinda sad, i read some of it last night before firefox fucked up on me, i will continue tonight. He provided very good patches, it's sad he's gone. His famous -ck will be missed!

And yes, you're not the only one who thinks Linux is a douche, he is an uber-dickhead but he's just so cool anyway and i agree with most of what he has ever said!

[Teh Roxor!]

A few of the comments on that artical sparked my interest in OpenSolaris, in fact, I'm running a live CD as I type this! It's certainly no slouch, it's running KDE with compiz and has set everything up correctly it seems. I hope it takes off, it would be interesting to see as another player in the OSS space.

[Garfunkel]

Yeah, which distro of opensorlaris are you using? I'm going to try nexenta in a few days, when i get a few minutes to spare. It's always good to dabble in more UNIX.

[Khaos]

Ah the irony. Con's idea of a completely fair CPU scheduler will be implemented in the 2.6.23 kernel:

http://www.linuxinsight.com/cfs-scheduler-to-appear-in-linux-kernel-2.6.23.html

[Garfunkel]

yeah, i thought of that too, the thing is, his idea of the scheduler must be different as he surely would have heard of it before he decided to quit.

[Khaos]

http://kerneltrap.org/node/14008

:doh:

I don't know, I'm just glad one of them got in. Ingo started on his way after Con was working on his. So SD has had much more work put into it.

But I will miss the -ck patches. :-(

[Garfunkel]

the thing I don't get is that -ck is one of the greatest devs (...was) yet they didn't decide to take his patch into account, yet Ingo came out of nowhere and was accepted immediately...

[Khaos]

Well, Ingo has a good reputation I guess and is trusted by Linus, apparently. But whatever, Linus said it himself: both perform about the same. It's just that by choosing Ingo's, he lost a good developer, too. Doesn't seem like the smartest decision to choose the one where you lose a developer...

[Garfunkel]

Yeah, well, Linux is a dickhead, but he's awesome all the same :)