On 04/12/11 12:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Or thousands of people can't make the Linux kernel better or faster than > Linus could have done by himself? imho, the linux kernel is a freekin mess of conflicted crap, ever changing. 50 different IO schedulers yet none of them can get write barriers sorted out correctly. driver ABIs that change with every build. etc etc. its amazing it works as well as it does.