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Benjamin Herrenschmidt On PPC/Linux, Apple and OSS

MacBoy writes "The folks over at ResExcellence have a great interview with Benjamin Herrenschmidt, kernel guru for the PPC/Linux camp. He offers up some history of Linux on Apple and PPC hardware, and some discussion on Apple's current and past contributions to the open-source and Linux communities. He makes some interesting comparisons of Linux on PPC vs. Intel hardware, such as the ease of getting important patches into the kernel on PPC compared to Intel. It's an interesting read, especially if you are amoung the many who covet the new Dual-CPU GHz G4 Macs and want to know a little more about the PPC/Linux community."

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  1. mother fuckers by confucio-licious · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mother fuckers

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    1. Re:mother fuckers by Breakfast+Pants · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Hey this is offtopic what point are you trying to prove? WE don't need that here please that that elsewhere.

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      WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
    2. Re:mother fuckers by confucio-licious · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      how do you "that" that?

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      "someone should make a hot air balloon that is shaped like a giant vagina". --Bill Clinton
    3. Re:mother fuckers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I like this one the best!

      P.S. Would you PLEASE walk into traffic, you trolling piece of monkey shit.

    4. Re:mother fuckers by Breakfast+Pants · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      sorry that that should be take that. and another thing we could use a guy like you.. ON MAC SLASH!

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      WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
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    1. Re:Poo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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      Benjamin Herrenschmidt On PPC/Linux, Apple and OSS
      Posted by Hemos on Saturday February 02, @12:14AM
      from the talkin'-bout-my-eople dept.
      MacBoy writes "The folks over at ResExcellence have a great interview with Benjamin Herrenschmidt, kernel guru for the PPC/Linux camp. He offers up some history of Linux on Apple and PPC hardware, and some discussion on Apple's current and past contributions to the open-source and Linux communities. He makes some interesting comparisons of Linux on PPC vs. Intel hardware, such as the ease of getting important patches into the kernel on PPC compared to Intel. It's an interesting read, especially if you are amoung the many who covet the new Dual-CPU GHz G4 Macs and want to know a little more about the PPC/Linux community."

  3. WTC Attack - Absurd Liberal Myth? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have allowed themselves to be so swiftly deluded by a fraudulent fabrication of such ridiculous proportions. The very idea that not one, but two jumbo jets would crash themselves into a famous New York skyscraper -- in broad daylight with vigilant air-traffic controllers and tight airport security watching every move of every craft in the air -- is laughable. Furthermore, it is a horrendous affront to the world-renowned intellect and common sense of the American people. The fact that anyone could actually believe this is evidence that the Liberals -- after decades of waging war against intellectual integrity and honesty -- have finally ripped the few remaining, tenuous strands of control of our educational system from full-blooded, hard-working, God-fearing Americans.

    As such wonderful documentaries as The Siege have so articulately exposed, the Liberal masterminds in Berkeley and their toadies throughout the nation have been silently waging war against the American people and their God-given rights to protect themselves, their worship, their family values, and their hard work. Much of this has been conducted under the guise of preventing "terrorism", a meaningless word engineered by radical left-wingers specifically to bring fear into the heart of honest Americans. Think about it -- can you remember any reference to so-called "terrorism" that occurred before Liberals invaded our government offices in the last decade? Of course you can't, because despite whatever the revisionist histories may tell you, there is no mention of any "terrorism" in classic literature before 1980. Only then did the neo-Marxists invent such absurd figures as Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden in order to legitimize their anti-freedom agenda, drowning the spirit of the American people in a blatantly-engineered machine of fear and mourning for "victims" of these "terrorist attacks".

    In fact, it should be incredibly obvious that the concept of a 110-story building even being built, much less two, is a clear and obvious fraud. No documentation of these "twin towers" existed before a "terrorist attack" occured on the previously-nonexistent pair of skyscrapers on September the 11th. Due to this hoax being perpetrated by the Liberal-controlled media, suddenly people all over the world mourned the loss of thousands of people who had not existed before. Innocent men and women, brainwashed by the left-wing education institutions, gave firsthand accounts of losing relatives they never had until the "attack" happened.

    But the most outrageous aspect of this hoax is the "Pentagon" -- a government office fabricated especially for this purpose. Liberal media claims this imaginary building to be "the center of America's defense system", although obviously an organization as proud and God-fearing as the United States Military would never think to station themselves in a building of five sides, so obviously close to the pentagram, mark of Lucifer himself. It is insulting to the nation's intelligence that eight hundred members of the world's proudest institution would be made to meet their Lord by something as graceful, efficient, and secure as our country's fine aviation system.

    Don't let the devious tricks of the Liberals allow you, a citizen of the greatest nation this Earth has ever or will ever know, to surrender your freedoms. Any lesser nation would have succumbed to their wills long ago, and indeed the socialist states in Europe already have. It is only the superior resilience, pride, and intellect of America that has allowed it to withstand the constant threat of Liberal control.

  4. That's nice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But what does ANAL COX think about it? Do you really want THIS MAN touching your kernel? How about your children??

    1. Re:That's nice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Alan Cox wants to give my 8-year-old daughter his anal cocks. Should I let him?

    2. Re:That's nice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Eric S. Raymond tried to felch my male!

    3. Re:That's nice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      RMS wanted me to perform something called "GNU/Fellatio" on him. What the hell was he talking about?

    4. Re:That's nice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      At least Alan Cox didn't try to stick his "TCP stack" up your ass. Ouch.

    5. Re:That's nice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Richard M Stallman sucked me off in the men's stall of an interstate truck stop.

  5. Re:Linux is so bad. Yes but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Using Linux gets us pussy.

  6. Re:Encounter with the Mystery Flute Man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    At least he didn't force you to perform GNU/Fellatio on him.

  7. Through the Eye of Lynx. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Apple it's funny. Laugh.

  8. Anal! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wonder what ANAL COX is doing at this moment. No doubt shoving his cox up some man's anal region. Well, carry on.

  9. Re:Encounter with the Mystery Flute Man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Would you prefer Linus Torvalds to use his modprobe on your butt? I hear he also likes to rape people with his monlithic kernel.

  10. Re:Question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    linus, stop sniffing white out!

  11. There are some rules for us trolls by The+BOFH+Troll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Here are two:

    1. Troll at least once a day, if not, once a week.
    2. Never post anything useful.

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    - The BOFH Troll

  12. Re:Question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are a racist pig! Guess what, interracial
    relationships are here to stay, you redneck son
    of a bitch!

    I should go and crash your suckass 386.

  13. *Yawn* by easter1916 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...sleepy. Think I'll go to bed now. Nighty-night nerds.

  14. Re:you're such a fuckcunt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    CowboyNeal has anal sex with kangaroos.

    he like it down under.

    boing boing?