From: Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:29:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C3C08CF9-A6FB-46DC-A41B-06C890A66B3D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e296dfecfd6f673cd3cc665aa629f758@quanstro.net>
On Sep 21, 2009, at 1:04 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> At least by what i've seen, a good number of these submits have been
>> fixing the same area, over and over again. How much of this is
>> actually good development anyways (i.e. The "does this really belong
>> here?" comments).
> [...]
>> Yup, and it works good! Of corse you can also use BSD by doing
>> similar.
>
> in aeronautical circles, it's said that the f4 is proof that given
> enough thrust even a brick will fly.
>
> linux is the f4 of computing?
I'm not sure I understand your question. I was just saying Linux's
development is rather chaotic, and in some cases, crack jobs. It still
manages to work, and work well, but I'm not really sure for how long.
>
> - erik
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-21 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-21 16:22 ron minnich
2009-09-21 16:44 ` Patrick Kelly
2009-09-21 17:04 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-21 17:29 ` Patrick Kelly [this message]
2009-09-21 17:02 ` tlaronde
2009-09-21 17:20 ` Patrick Kelly
2009-09-30 13:22 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-09-21 17:41 ` Jack Norton
2009-09-21 17:53 ` Patrick Kelly
2009-09-21 19:32 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-21 19:42 ` Patrick Kelly
2009-09-22 1:12 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-09-22 1:26 ` Patrick Kelly
2009-09-22 2:33 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-22 2:52 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-09-22 2:58 ` Patrick Kelly
2009-09-22 3:02 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-22 6:15 ` Tim Newsham
2009-09-22 14:23 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-22 16:57 ` Tim Newsham
2009-09-22 13:48 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-09-22 14:44 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-22 14:39 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-22 14:47 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-22 15:04 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-22 15:14 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-22 16:26 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-22 3:36 ` ron minnich
2009-09-22 3:38 ` ron minnich
2009-09-22 14:17 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-09-22 14:47 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-22 20:14 ` Richard Uhtenwoldt
2009-09-22 20:47 ` Jack Norton
2009-09-22 22:31 ` Patrick Kelly
2009-09-23 1:55 ` David Arnold
2009-09-24 14:21 ` Patrick Kelly
2009-09-24 15:46 ` Jacob Todd
2009-09-24 15:56 ` Iruata Souza
2009-09-28 3:35 ` Patrick Kelly
2009-09-22 20:55 ` Chad Brown
[not found] <<Pine.BSI.4.64.0909220654020.23231@malasada.lava.net>
2009-09-22 17:13 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-22 18:27 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-22 22:13 ` Tim Newsham
2009-09-22 22:25 ` Tim Newsham
2009-09-22 22:44 ` Jason Catena
[not found] <<012201ca3fec$c58f6020$50ae2060$@com>
2009-09-28 3:38 ` erik quanstrom
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