Messages in this thread | | | From | <> | Subject | Licensing bug, and... | Date | Fri, 03 Sep 2004 17:38:09 -0600 |
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Possible: users ( SuSE, Kondara, Yggdrasil... ) of the Linux kernel are /required/ to inform the kernel-developers of discovered-bugs, if they didn't already know ( search of archives of the list, or whatever ), and also are /required/ to forward any bugfix to the kernel-developers when said user commits it to their own system/distro, if the kernel-developers haven't corrected-it already.
Currently: users of the Linux kernel can keep-quiet about discovered-bugs & develop their own fixes to 'em, posting them obscurely, so as to attack the /entire/ rest of the Linux community, in-order to leverage their position /in/ the community, against ( inadvertently ) the community itself.
The "Possible" version makes the kernel, and integrity, primary, and is the paradigm knowing Linux's competition against undealt-with defects.
The "Current" version ignores that the kernel is crucial and damages Linux for sake of fragmentation-based "position"al leverage.
I'd rather see the kernel be /coherently/ improved, and this has bugged, at-least, the Gentoo groons ( in their direct experience, of having to study many distros' updates to discover fixes to the kernel that GPL allows to be "released" in a way that doesn't /directly make/ kernel-integrity ), and knowlege-types like me who can't stand broken algorithms, wherever they be.
Is DNS is based on mathematical-root with reason? I believe so...
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I /believe/ that the kernel balances reads evenly across all RAID-1 components, but...
Why not have /asymmetrical/ RAID-1, like this:
(ECC) RAM-disk \ RAID-1 RAID-6 array /
with ALL reads done from RAM, and writes going to both?
Incredible speed coupled-with reliability, that TTBOMK, nothing else can compete-with.
Maybe this already is the case, but I simply haven't found-out otherwise, so...
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Why don't any linux-type-developers make a 3D engine using stereogram-based display?
Like the XMMS wine-dependent plugin Fishmatic.
It'd make engineering-walkthroughs of complex complexes have visceral validity, though it'd eat Opterons like potato-chips, I guess...
Good for Games, too: Depth-perception through a normal monitor.
Just asking...
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I've kept-quiet about these for years, not being a coder, figuring everyone's /not/-doing 'em for good reason, but What The Heck?
Do with these ideas what you will, & I wish youse well, and I only read Kernel Traffic, not subscribe, so if you want to get me, e-mail, please: I cannot afford the web-mail space right now, and have no 'net connection, and am not getting yet-a-bloody-'nother e-mail address, since my password-remembering braincells are almost all gone...
Cheers
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