Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:20:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | KMF AV <> | Subject | "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux |
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First, the 2.4 kernel is years late and doesn't work right, and keeps getting rewritten because it's a festering hunk of fetid spaghetti inside.
Then, Alan Cox suggests tossing the versioning scheme to the wind even more that it already has been:
> Alan Cox did post an interesting suggestion. In his > scheme, there would essentially be two stable kernel
> release tracks. Once 2.4 comes out, the 2.5 > development series would go off as usual. At some > point, however, the developers would stop and decide
> which of the new features could be backported to the > 2.4 kernel in a stable manner. That port would be > done, with the result being 2.6. The 2.5 series would > then be renamed 2.7, and the whole thing would > eventually be stabilized as 2.8.
And then this delightful news story about Linux Kernel Programmers -- who don't need debuggers, because they're so rad -- don't actually know how to program:
> The hunt for undefined code. Here's one kind of > problem that a new compiler can turn up. Most C > programmers learn early on to avoid code like: > a[i] = i++; The results of this kind of code are > undefined; the array assignment could happen either > before or after the value of it is incremented. Bernd > Schmidt looked through the kernel source for this > sort of code, and found quite a bit of it. He has > submitted a patch to fix up the things he > encountered; as he puts it, "in some cases, it wasn't > entirely clear what the code intended, so I had to > guess." This patch went into 2.4.0-test10-pre4, so we > may well find a spot or two where he guessed wrong. > The effort is a good one, though. This kind of code > is a time bomb waiting to go off; it needs to be > cleaned up sooner rather than later.
... obviously the Linux logo should be the international symbol for the fucking retard.
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