Torvalds Rebukes Desktop Critics

The creator of the Linux operating system kernel, Linus Torvalds, has some choice words for a fellow programmer that slammed Linux over its perceived inability to break into the desktop market.

Torvalds was responding to criticism by programmer Con Kolivas, who had developed a patch designed to improve the performance of specific Linux desktop features. Kolivas claimed in an interview that the kernel development process privileges enterprise-centric server features, while basic desktop features remain almost unusable.

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