From correspondent AY: 150,000,000 Number of Windows 7 licenses sold, making Windows 7 by far the fastest growing operating system in history. <10 Percentage of US netbooks running Windows in 2008. 96 Percentage of US netbooks running Windows in 2009.
Linux semaphores
Re: Schedule idle MOLNAR Ingo (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu) Wed, 11 Nov 1998 04:09:32 +0100 (CET) […] > _please_ We can do better than this. Only semaphores (not spinlocks) need > to have the priority inheritance. […] nope there are _not_ only semaphores,
Montavista f-f-fades away
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwire – 11/10/09) – Cavium Networks (NASDAQ:CAVM – News), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, wireless, storage and video applications, today announced that it is has signed a definitive agreement
Microkernels and why academic OS research is boring
Andy Tanenbaum writes a defense of microkernels that (1) misses the content of Linus Torvald’s critique, (2) ignores the most relevant paper on software development, David Parnas’ Software Jewels paper, and (3) pretends RTLinux does not exist. The problem with