From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Patrick Kelly To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:29:34 -0400 References: Subject: Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon Topicbox-Message-UUID: 737ddb5a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 >