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The Linux Weather Forecast
kwabbles writes "The Linux Foundation launched the Linux Weather Forecast yesterday. It features 'current conditions' for kernel development, a 'short-term forecast,' and a 'long-term forecast.' Now developers and organizations that want to see when certain implementations/fixes are planned can find answers at this informative and handy site."
Although I cannot predict day to day fluctuations, I can say with a high degree of certainty that in 1000 years, Linux usage among the population will be around 62% with a 73 percentage point uncertainty. My models are never wrong.
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Partly cloudy with a slight chance of kernel panics.
What the hell is Karma and why is mine always "Bad"
If someone can read this more deeply and see the analogy, then please enlighten me!
You see, it's like a car with a banana in its radiator...
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The Linux forecast for tonight is ... dark.
sigs, as if you care.
AAPL is heading DOWN ! Sell !! Sell AAPL !! Now !!
we will see some segmentation faults and a 30% possibility of a new error called kernel disintegration. Also in international news the war on errors seems pretty grim.
The kernel is nothing like a car, with or without a banana in its radiator or anywhere else. I'm sorry, but that just doesn't describe the situation at all.
Imagine, if you will, a perfect state machine with N inputs and G(N) outputs, where each output is a Thorgen-Zeta function of all the inputs bounded by the radial square root of each of its eigenvalues. Clearly, the scope is integrable under N, which is probably what led you to your assumption. But where your car-fruit analogy falls down is in assuming that complete T-Z continuity with respect to time.
So a better analogy would be a car with a fish in its tailpipe, dripping maggots along the highway in the rain. Some of the maggots survive to become features, but some are squashed by schoolbuses full of sweaty cheerleaders.
sigs, as if you care.
Cool.... now we can all shelter whenever there is a SEVERE LINUS WARNING.
I can see that now. Yes, I had failed to account for the natural tachyon output of properly seated bananas (and the lower but significant output of properly seated plantains, as well). But we may be drifting slightly off-topic.
The OP is correct: the Linux Weather Forecast is like a car with a banana (properly seated) in the radiator.
sigs, as if you care.
Low: Peace and harmony, everyone must be on vacation this week
Moderate: Noobs complaining about nVidia driver crashes
Elevated: Linus just tried GNOME... again
High: Con Kolivas and Ingo Molnar go mano-a-mano over scheduling algorithms
Extreme: Hans Reiser is back, and he's armed, dangerous, and off his meds!
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The seating must be in the Complex domain, and for the output to generate the necessary synchrotron tachyon, the banana must be entangled with the fish in the tailpipe, as postulated by Minsky space.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
But, come on and look at Linux: it's slowly becoming a microkernel:
In other words, it's slowly getting towards the superior desktop OS design -- the one that Windows uses. And it's really no wonder.
I recall a MacGyver episode where they patch the bullet holes in a car radiator with a couple of eggs, as that stuff solidifies easily. That, in turn, reminds me of vegan baking where people often replace eggs with bananas. So, it's a perfect vegan MacGyver analogy!
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Mountain Dew in the morning, damp throughout the day, and 0% chance of showers.