From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:08:00 +0100 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e0160aa485f7786051b9d0428 Subject: Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 61a5545e-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --089e0160aa485f7786051b9d0428 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 24 July 2015 at 04:54, Prof Brucee wrote: > has Linux with the release of 4.0 finally jumped the shark. Since it's called "Hurr Durr I'ma Sheep", I thought I'd ask a celebrity what he thought of it. The response was much as I'd expected: http://goo.gl/ZefDFV Others simply said that "it was baaad". I'm amused that as usual, dynamic patching of kernel source, like replacing dynamic libraries, is presented uniformly as a way to fix bugs everywhere quickly, because we all know that bugs always are fixed and never introduced, and being able to capture a kernel without rebooting is never of practical interest. --089e0160aa485f7786051b9d0428 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

= On 24 July 2015 at 04:54, Prof Brucee <prof.brucee@gmail.com> wrote:
has Linux with the release o= f 4.0 finally jumped the shark.

Since it's called "Hurr Durr I'ma Sheep", I = thought I'd ask a celebrity what he thought of it.
The response was much as I'd expected: http://goo.gl/ZefDFV
Others simply said that "it w= as baaad".

I'm amused that as usual, dynamic patching of kernel source, = like replacing dynamic libraries, is presented uniformly as a way to fix bu= gs everywhere quickly, because we all know that bugs always are fixed and n= ever introduced, and being able to capture a kernel without rebooting is ne= ver of practical interest.
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