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On 5/2/25 13:57, Russell Coker via linux-aus wrote:
> I think it would be good to learn from the people working on the various


Years ago, when I was about 2 :-), I worked with people at IBM to improve something in their main OS 
core. Not my code. I was just an observer of something that could be improved. They explained the 
problem they found and a good solution.

Ten years later at a Unix conference, one of the top Unix people talked about how he had just 
discovered and solved a kernel timing problem. Almost word for word what the IBM engineers said.

Several years after that, a leading Linux kernel developer announced a solution for a timing problem 
in the Linux kernel. Word for word what the IBM/Unix guys said.

Yes we can learn by looking at what other people do. In some cases they have more intense workloads 
of specific types highlighting code weaknesses.

How did we interact with people like Intel when they introduced two types of cores? How will we 
interact with them when they add their APU (Antimatter Processing Unit) or whatever is next?

At the consumer level, the biggest improvement across Linux in general would be to change file 
system write caching to write immediate for easily unplugged USB storage.

What I see is lots of presentations about stuff in the middle, mostly server oriented, not the 
bleeding edge of hardware or solving beginner desktop problems.

Peter