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Torvalds Has Harsh Words For FreeBSD Devs
An anonymous reader writes "In a relatively technical discussion about the merits of Copy On Write (COW) versus a very new Linux kernel system call named vmsplice(), Linux creator Linus Torvalds had some harsh words for Mach and FreeBSD developers that utilize COW: 'I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad, but quite frankly, memory copies often have _less_ downside than VM games, and bigger caches will only continue to drive that point home.' The discussion goes on to explain how the new vmsplice() avoids this extra overhead."
Linus - if you're reading this, which I know you are, and if you take my advice, which I know you do: Beer, barbeque, and your woman. Or a spliff. Whatever you like. Just relax. Breathe deeply. Yoga. Meditation. Tantric sex. Kinky sex. Whatever. Just relax man. You've done the hard work. And now just sit back, and watch Linux trounce over Windows and *BSD.
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Gnome and KDE _are_ for idiots. Why do you need all that useless cruft just to manage a windowing scheme?
... Standards and Practices !
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Ah, Linux VM... where the implementation is completely changed like 100 times on the "stable" branch before they finally get it vaguely right.
>Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
No *you're* a towel.
You forgot:
Floppy discs are not an acceptable storage medium.