cpu overheating

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Tue Dec 12 22:56:03 UTC 2006


On 12/13/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> James Wilkinson wrote:
> > Roo wrote:
> >
> >>Saying that software which fully utilises the CPU has a DEFECT
> >>is witless drivelling of the worst kind.
> >
> >
> > Mike McCarty wrote:
> >
> >>It is not, because Linux is not intended to utilize the CPU like that.
> >
> > That is an extraordinary claim. Absolutely extraordinary.
>
> It seems perfectly natural to me.
>
> > Are you *seriously* suggesting that Linux computers are not meant to run
> > processor-intensive code?
>
> Read what I wrote very carefully.
>
> I said that *LINUX* is not intended to utilize the CPU like
> that. I said nothing about applications which might be written
> for Linux. I said that the OS itself is not supposed to be
> CPU intensive.
>
> That seems perfectly natural and unremarkable to me.

Apperent disambigation issues here between Linux as an OS and Linux as
the kernel.

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