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Torvalds & Linux Dev Process
sebFlyte writes "Builder UK is reporting that Linus Torvalds is concerned that the Linux production kernel maintainence process might be overly taxing Andrew Morton, saying: "One issue is that I actually worry that Andrew will at some point be where I was a couple of years ago -- overworked and stressed out by just tons and tons of patches. If Andrew burns out, we'll all suffer hugely." Morton himself wants to make -mm releases more often. He sees bugs as more of a problem, rather than patches themselves. His solution is simple: "I'd like to release -mm's more often and I'd like -mm to have less of a wild-and-crappy reputation. Both of these would happen if originators were to test their stuff more carefully.""
It was a duplicate article from Saturday. I assume they realised belatedly and pulled it.
They probably realized that the submission was just putting a different spin on the WSJ story about Vista's development process that had been posted a few days ago.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are witnessing history here. This is the first time Slashdot has actually pulled a story.
Mmmm.. Donuts
So, what happened to the previous lead article about Windows vista being borked. It myteriously disappeared. Maybe it was due to the poor way it was presented with old data from something that was supposedly WSJ but was being served out of an Australian web news site.
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Do articles often just disappear on
No apparently this is a bad combination of old, new and bad news. The annoncement that Vista was broken was a year ago. Signifant changed where made, and its now looking better. The rumor that Microsoft was breaking up was last week, buts its still just a rumor.
Nothing to see here.. Move along.
Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat. -- Author unknown
Indeed - kudos to the Slashdot editors for pulling a dupe once it was realised. Here's hoping it'll happen all the more often.
;-)
Well, here's hoping we'll never get any more dupes ever, but this is a good first step in that direction
Everything in moderation, including moderation itself
I know I'm spiraling way off topic, but...
:)
I wouldn't worry about it. Normally this (talking about dupes getting pulled) would subject you to offtopic hell. But a quick glance through the comments here shows the simple fact that the words "windows" and "broken" are together are actually getting people modded up
I just looked at the main page and saw "Windows Is Officially Broken" and then it disappeared. Did anyone else notice?
Nihilism means nothing to the dancing peasants