Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:13:44 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: My thoughts on the "new development model" |
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 04:46:58PM +1000, michael@optusnet.com.au wrote: > That's NOT the same as bug free software. For a start, there's no such > thing. For another, many bugs are perfectly acceptable in a production > environment as long as they're not impacting. (The linux kernel is a > very large piece of work. Few installations would use even 20% of the > total kernel functionality).
I'd expect vastly less than 1%, starting from the arch count, and then making some conservative guesses about drivers. Drivers probably actually take it down to far, far less than 1%.
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