Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:29:12 -0700 (PDT) | From | Kernel Mailing List 0502 <> | Subject | Re: This is really Ridiculous (I apologize!) |
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1. I am sincerely sorry for titleing my original post 'This is really Ridiculous', I did not realize it would start a flame war over a number of completely unrelated topics.
2. Instead of compiling every kernel (or trying to) the day it is posted, I have now (after reading about changes made between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1) gone back to using 2.0.0, it seems to work fine to me. The only place I saw a noticeable difference (from the users point of view) was between 1.2.13-1.3.74 and 1.3.75 (?I think) with the whole caching thing.
3. What I would appreciate, however is information and patches to any bugs found in 2.0.0?
4. I honestly don't think there is anything you can do about releasing buggy kernels except to mark them as such.
5. Ultimately, all I am really interested in beyond what we already have is working block encryption code so that we can have encrytped file systems via the loopback device.
6. Please don't fight over rather the kernels are too buggy and such. Your time would be better spent translating it to lisp.
7. All systems (except theoretical ones) have a finite lifetime, please do not shorten the lifetime of Linux by arguing negligible points (unless, ofcourse you have already implemented some other theoretical system).
8. I am not an expert at anything I did not create, I don't really know anything about Linux, UNIX in general, English, programming or computing systems. Therefore, you may, if you choose, completely disregard everything I have just said unless you are deceived enough to believe that I know anything. Furthermore, it is my firm belief that us mere mortals can only approach by afar and possibly approximate the perfect operating system, in fact, the concept of an operating may only be a convience for our small thinking minds (much like the fact that floating point numbers are unnecessary). More explicitly stated: Only God can create the perfect system.
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