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every now and then linus peeks in at what passes for linux, freaks out, gets pissed off at the state of things, vents, and everyone chimes in. so i'll chime in.
by jnazario 15y ago
every now and then linus peeks in at what passes for linux, freaks out, gets pissed off at the state of things, vents, and everyone chimes in. so i'll chime in.
this is what you get when you are laissez-faire about how things operate in the land you helped create and ignore issues (via guidance and suggestions) for years on end. this happened with wifi some years ago, too, and didn't get attention until linus got a laptop with wifi.
this is just one reason why i stopped using linux day to day over ten years ago, happily.
- redthrowaway 15y ago>this is just one reason why i stopped using linux day to day over ten years ago, happily. It's gotten a whole lot better in the last 10 years.
- jnazario 15y agouse it on servers at work, it's gotten horribly confusing in terms of configs. real scary, inconsistent mess. i don't use it as my primary machine or dev machine any more. i'd say i'm pretty up to date with it (and alternatives) and still disagree with you. "whole lot"? i disagree.
- vacri 15y agoWhy is a kernel dictator responsible for the userspace? what genuine authority does Torvalds have over gnome or kde? It's not Torvalds' responsibility, implied or otherwise, to manage what kind of password userspace requires for setting config settings.
- jnazario 15y agolinus is notoriously opposed to security, calling the security community various names over the years. the capabilities exposed by the kernel have direct impact on userland. if security isn't a priority for linus and is left to third parties, then you wind up with all sorts of stuff that is the ecosystem we have today. some is great, some is awful. without attention and respect from the guy in charge of the kernel, which gates security for the system, this is what you get.