From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] recreational programming of an evening
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:47:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e61003220847k2129d16ara4474e75e2c2a755@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df11003211447x61159036td8f217e9cc7052d2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:47 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Stuart Morrow
> <morrow.stuart@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > so, are you basically saying that linux is a complex operating system,
> > and it just takes a genius to understand its complexity?
>
>
> no, it's just badly designed. Working with a bad design gives me a
> splitting headache. I make my living doing linux but that doesn't mean
> I have to worship at the altar, right?
>
> ron
>
>
I got the hunch it wasn't designed at all, but more "hacked on" or evolved.
Different subsystems appear to have designs, but there doesn't seem to be
anything stopping people from stomping all over the structures and glue that
make it possible for a driver to last very long without updates needed. At
least that's been my experience.
In fact the evolutionary nature appears to have been backed as an advantage
by Linus himself.
Dave
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-21 5:48 ron minnich
2010-03-21 8:30 ` EBo
2010-03-21 17:36 ` Stuart Morrow
2010-03-21 17:39 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-21 21:47 ` ron minnich
2010-03-21 22:02 ` EBo
2010-03-21 22:56 ` hiro
2010-03-22 0:02 ` EBo
2010-03-22 15:50 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-22 15:57 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-03-22 16:09 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-22 17:22 ` Chad Brown
2010-03-22 17:54 ` Chad Brown
2010-03-22 16:09 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-21 23:19 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-21 23:54 ` EBo
2010-03-22 5:57 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-03-22 15:47 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2010-03-22 16:07 ` ron minnich
2010-03-21 17:57 ` Bakul Shah
2010-03-21 18:03 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-03-21 18:59 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2010-03-21 22:08 ` EBo
2010-03-21 19:37 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-21 20:41 ` Bakul Shah
2010-03-21 21:48 ` ron minnich
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-03-17 4:37 ron minnich
2010-03-17 9:15 ` Noah Evans
2010-03-17 15:12 ` ron minnich
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