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Torvalds Rebukes Desktop Critics

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“Linus Torvalds, creator and maintainer of the Linux operating
system kernel, has reacted angrily to suggestions that the kernel’s
development process is skewed in a way that prevents improvements
on the desktop.

“Torvalds was responding to criticism by programmer Con Kolivas,
who had developed a patch designed to improve the performance of
specific Linux desktop features…”


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