Re: [LUG] Linux is 10 years old

[Jon Still <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> peterbunce wrote:
> >
> > no ms software is  nor, sorry to say, is any flavor of linux

Linux *is* multitasking and multithreaded.  There are even kernel threads.

Linux does *not* do pre-emptive multitasking.  In fact, very few general
purpose OSes do - Solaris is one of them and I forget the other.
Pre-emptive multitasking is the domain of Real Time OSes.

J.

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