Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 May 1999 12:58:59 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [Godwin] Re: Kernel Nazis/LinBSD (was Re: Slashdot shitheads) |
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On Thu, 13 May 1999 kernel@draper.net wrote:
> Yup, I do think that Linux is becoming worthy of world domination. > Maybe we can agree that will happen only as Linux progresses > as a truly great OS.
Will never happen (former, that is ;-) There are different tasks and they require different designs. Mixing them in one kernel will produce a bloated monster unable to do anything well. That alone means that there always will be different systems. Moreover, somehow I doubt that anything will make *BSD folks drop their work. So there will be other free Unices. Which is fine, since looking at the different solutions of the problems may help big way. And desktop domination... Ever noticed what kind of BS Windows desktop programmers produce? 'zactly. World is x86, portability doesn't matter, let's use every detail of the underlying OS (and cry foul if the thing will break apart on the next version), let's use every internal function of system libraries we can find, let's run everything as root to have a direct access to <piece of hardware of choice>, yodda, yodda. Monopoly harms the OS that got that monopoly. If they would have to deal with the market divided between several Unices... life would be much nicer.
> Yup, I am becoming increasingly familiar with some areas of the kernel, > including VFS, but surely not to the extent you are. I suppose > my work must proceed without your mentoring, as your bigotry > precludes those who frequent SlashDot. My minor little > contributions to the kernel are hardly worthy of mention anyways. > Oh well, sigh.
Darn. If you have questions - *ask* *them*. Sigh... Let me put it that way: 99% of things I've seen on slashdot is a collective paranoia of pretty aggressive sort. Who cares where you spend your time unless you are frothing/claiming that everybody belong to Cabal (tinC)/sold their souls to $EVIL_CORPORATION, yodda, yodda? If you want to learn something - read the code, ask on the list, read books, look for bug reports and try to find and fix the bugs, post patches... More power to you. Nobody will flame you for asking normal questions. There is no evil conspiracy.
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