Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 29 Jul 1996 01:30:21 -0400 (EDT) | From | Brian Grunkemeyer <> | Subject | Re: This is really Ridiculous |
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> How much does a typo in a commercial unix vendor's OS cost you?
A genuine bug in IRIX 5.3 cost me about 3 days' worth of work 2 weeks ago. Another IRIX bug, or perhaps simply misfeature, causes my deconvolution program to run up to 30 times slower than usual, depending on the input. I don't know of any typos in any commercial UNIX OS, just bugs & features that end up hindering me.
Linux kernel typos generally cost me about 20 minutes to find a fix then the time it takes to do a partial kernel compile. I admit, its a lot less, but its still a cost. This cost is incurred by anyone compiling that kernel under a bad configuration, assuming they try to fix it. Otherwise they just lose the time they spent patching and partially compiling the kernel.
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