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Someone needs to codify this shit for when he leaves. Its surprising that he still needs to scream at people after two decades of kernel work. I don't have a lo
by bischofs 9y ago
Someone needs to codify this shit for when he leaves. Its surprising that he still needs to scream at people after two decades of kernel work. I don't have a lot of faith that whoever comes after him will be as proud of the kernel as he is given they just inherited most of it.
Succession is a weird concept with linux but the fact that it has always been more stable than the other OS' is I think the main reason it is been so successful in the internet age.
An example of a failed succession is Tim Cook; the guy is the complete opposite of Jobs. Just take a look at the apple website nowadays. A product guru would not sell three generations of iphones that are all cannibalizing each other and lack any real differences.
- s_dev 9y agoI don't think the Cook/Jobs comparison is fair. It's always been well understood the the same people who are typically good are starting companies aren't typically the best people to run them once they achieve a certain scale.
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- Torwald 9y agoHow are "three generations of iphones" "cannibalizing each other and lack any real differences" ? Care to elaborate?
- proginthebox 9y agoWe will hopefully have a new kernel written in Rust by someone new.
- scott_karana 9y agoGod, I hope not. Ground-up rewrites (when they even succeed) typically lose features, performance, and security, since they don't have the benefit of 20+ years of correcting mistakes. Plus you lose all your contributors. However, Rust is linker compatible with C, and can be runtimeless, so rewriting the kernel piecemeal over time instead could be great. ;-)
- proginthebox 9y agoThis is what I meant. Any ground up rewrite will be reinventing the wheel and hence too expensive.