Marcelo Tosatti on UnitedLinux (And More)

PDAJames writes "There's a new interview with Marcelo Tosatti online. He talks about what it's like to be kernel maintainer after nine months on the job and identifies the biggest problems with the kernel now. He also defends UnitedLinux against Mandrake's criticism. He would, since he works for Conectiva..."

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What a twisted pervert!

[buzzbomb]

It's not like working on 2.5 (the development kernel).
Yeah, that kind of thing is really sexy.

Marcelo is a kernelophile! He should be locked up for having feelings like towards kernels! ;)

memory corruption

[Anonymous Coward]

Tosatti: Somewhat. My priorities are fixing some corruption bugs -- we're not sure if they're a hardware problem or not. We're not sure where the thing is, or whether it's present on all kernels, but it's memory corruption, which is a big problem because memory corruption may cause data corruption and crashes.

Oh dear! This might explain the frequent kernel errors. Hopefully, they'll implement "protected memory" someday!

Re:Wise words from a young man

[Anonymous Coward]

Not so wise words, paraphrased:

I've recently learned that saying, "I think you're wrong." is much more socially adept than saying, "You stupid piece of shit."

Re:Warning I don't know what I am talking about

[jcoy42]

this is a pronoun. I think we need a noun to answer your question.

Re:Marcelo

[Prior Restraint]

Slashdot could learn a lot from this guy.

No we can't, you dumbass! You're completely full of shit!

;-)

Linus

[bgarcia]

But instead of saying, for example, "You are full of shit," you can just say, "I don't think you are really right." You have to use the right words.

Slashdot could learn a lot from this guy.

Hell, Linus Torvalds could learn a lot from this guy.