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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance (nitter.net)

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

For those getting excited, It doesn't "boost" gaming performance. It prioritizes the game over the background process (in this case, a kernel being compiled.)

Schedulers aren't magic. As pointed out in the comments of the linked article, there are other ways of doing this. The more interesting tech here is being able to choose between schedulers under specific workloads, which is very nice IMO.

[–] Unyieldingly 4 points 10 months ago

So it is more or less like changing to -1 or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sounds like exactly what you would want for games and interactive apps