> and in the early days people were scared off with its kernel panics. It is ironic that to this day those kernel panics are associated with systemtap (the vis

> and in the early days people were scared off with its kernel panics. It is ironic that to this day those kernel panics are associated with systemtap (the visible user interface) rather than the kernel (where the vast majority of the responsible bugs actually lay). But perceptions indeed matter, even erroneous ones.