Linus Torvalds: Linux may need a diet

Portland (ip-192.com): Linux may need a diet, according to Linus Torvalds. The Linux creator said the open source kernel has become “bloated and huge.” James Bottomley, a Novell engineer, confirmed during a roundtable discussion at LinuxCon in Portland, Oregon that the performance of Linux drops about 2 percent with every new release of the kernel. [...]