Messages in this thread | | | From | "Timothy A. DeWees" <> | Subject | Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux | Date | Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:02:59 -0400 |
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Grow UP! Just what did you expect to acomplish by swearing at the developers?
----- Original Message ----- From: KMF AV <kmfav@yahoo.com> To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 11:20 AM Subject: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux
> 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. > > http://www.geocities.com/kmfav/ > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. > http://im.yahoo.com/ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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