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Linux kernel 6.13 isn't a major release but's it still important - here's why
Linus Torvalds also announced he would award five random Linux kernel developers with his handmade guitar effect pedals. What, you may ask?
You see, the problem is that there's no one-size-fits-all solution for determining whether it's better for a system to respond quickly to an event, say clicking a mouse button, or give long-running CPU jobs all the time they need. Eventually, as Linux kernel developer Jonathan Corbet observed: "The end goal of this work is to have a scheduler with only two non-real-time modes: PREEMPT_LAZY and PREEMPT_FULL. In short, this option is not meant for Joe or Jane User but for hardcore, old-school Apple device hobbyists who want to explore bringing Linux to these older platforms.
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