Cox on Torvalds and Linux Kernel Development

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 1, 2005 @05:23PM from the just-some-hippy-drunkards dept.

sebFlyte writes "Alan Cox' speech at FOSDEM sounds like it was interesting... according to this ZDNet report on it he has some interesting views. For one, he says: 'Linus is a good developer, but is a terrible engineer.' He also has a few digs at Torvald's methods surrounding security fixes, and some other interesting insights in the kernel development process: 'Sometimes you see a fix and think "this is perfect, move my fix into the kernel tree." Later you think, "I must have been drunk. Don't apply that patch."'"

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Unfortunately... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-01 17:29 · Score: 0, Flamebait

They started out the event with the cheer "Who loves Cox?" Made things a little confusing, although most attendees cheered anyway.
Wierd.
Oh come on! by QuantumG · 2005-03-01 17:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Linux enjoys a reputation as a particulary secure operating system, compared to rivals such as Microsoft's Windows.

Compare apples with oranges much? If you want to talk about Linux's security reputation, let's compare it to OpenBSD shall we?

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