It's easy to make a tiny super efficient kernel. Just don't support stuff. WLAN? Who needs it? SMP? That'll never catch on. Take it out. Device driver support?

It's easy to make a tiny super efficient kernel. Just don't support stuff. WLAN? Who needs it? SMP? That'll never catch on. Take it out. Device driver support? Bleh. Let hardware makers post the source code on their websites and users can download and compile the code. No need to include it in the kernel source tree. And who uses anything but x86 anymore? Get all that PPC, ARM, SPARC non-sense out of there too. If we all work together we can make Linux completely useless but hey, it'll be tiny and efficient. We can sit around and congratulate each other for being such elegant programmers. We won't have to worry about those pesky end users anymore either.