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Probably obvious, but hooray for open source software! What a fantastic response to the bug.

by spindle 9y ago

tinus_hn 9y ago
Imagine if this had happened to Apple, everyone and his dog would be rolling over each other villifying them.
- spindle 9y ago
  Apple's file systems HAVE had some serious bugs, as you probably know. I haven't noticed that they've been getting all that much press. What press they've been getting is very negative, though, and quite right too.
- Annatar 9y ago
  I paid good money to Apple so something like that would not happen, so yeah I’d be villifying them. You bet!
  - tinus_hn 9y ago
    As opposed to the free RedHat Enterprise Linux operating system
    - Annatar 9y ago
      No, I love to hate redhat because they are the most incompetent company in the computer industry’s history; just take a look at their priority 1 bugs at bugzilla.redat.com and the picture becomes crystal clear. (I’m forced to perform system engineering on RHEL every day and a lot, so my hate for it grows daily.)
- pbarnes_1 9y ago
  Like storing the passphrase in the hint field...? Shit happens. Software is hard.
Annatar 9y ago
Since when is introducing a major regression into something as critical as a filing system a hooray for open source? Only on GNU/Linux... and nobody thinks twice about it or bats an eyelash; instead, the scrambling to contain the regression is greeted with a hooray. It’s mentality like this which makes me want to never touch a computer again.
- StaticRedux 9y ago
  Introducing major bugs happens in software all the time. Finding it, working out a solution, and fixing it quickly is a hooray for open source.
  - Annatar 9y ago
    How quickly a problem is understood and fixed has nothing whatsoever to do with open source. That is a fallacy.
tetha 9y ago
Yep, this is one of the big reasons why I love the open source linux world. Something breaks -- and in this case, the initial situation looks quite terrifying. And then a whole bunch of people pile in with information, reproduction, systems they can use for testing, ways to handle this in production, ...

Probably obvious, but hooray for open source software! What a fantastic response to the bug.

tinus_hn 9y ago

Imagine if this had happened to Apple, everyone and his dog would be rolling over each other villifying them.

spindle 9y ago
Apple's file systems HAVE had some serious bugs, as you probably know. I haven't noticed that they've been getting all that much press. What press they've been getting is very negative, though, and quite right too.
Annatar 9y ago
I paid good money to Apple so something like that would not happen, so yeah I’d be villifying them. You bet!
- tinus_hn 9y ago
  As opposed to the free RedHat Enterprise Linux operating system
  - Annatar 9y ago
    No, I love to hate redhat because they are the most incompetent company in the computer industry’s history; just take a look at their priority 1 bugs at bugzilla.redat.com and the picture becomes crystal clear. (I’m forced to perform system engineering on RHEL every day and a lot, so my hate for it grows daily.)
pbarnes_1 9y ago
Like storing the passphrase in the hint field...? Shit happens. Software is hard.

Annatar 9y ago

Since when is introducing a major regression into something as critical as a filing system a hooray for open source? Only on GNU/Linux... and nobody thinks twice about it or bats an eyelash; instead, the scrambling to contain the regression is greeted with a hooray. It’s mentality like this which makes me want to never touch a computer again.

StaticRedux 9y ago
Introducing major bugs happens in software all the time. Finding it, working out a solution, and fixing it quickly is a hooray for open source.
- Annatar 9y ago
  How quickly a problem is understood and fixed has nothing whatsoever to do with open source. That is a fallacy.

tetha 9y ago

Yep, this is one of the big reasons why I love the open source linux world. Something breaks -- and in this case, the initial situation looks quite terrifying. And then a whole bunch of people pile in with information, reproduction, systems they can use for testing, ways to handle this in production, ...