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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."
Everyone knows the best way to get cheap karma is to post something that looks vaguely on-topic early in the thread. If you show up too late to get one of the first 10 or 15 posts, you reply to the first post. Doesn't matter what the first post says, moderators usually don't look to see if your post has anything to do with what you're replying to. There are plenty of stories around here where you see karma bait posted as a reply to a totally nonsensical first post. It works because, by my estimation, 80% of moderators semi-randomly assign moderations to the first half page of comments and ignore the rest.
As of this writing, the post you replied to has already collected an "Insightful" mod, despite displaying virtually no insight. So you see, this technique really does work.
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You'll know if a userspace driver crashes. The device will become unavailable. Then look for the coredump or logfile. But at least you have a coredump to run gdb on now.
But X doesn't always hand the machine. Often you can ssh in and resrart at. Also, that way, you don't loose files which haven't been committed to disk.
But it's true, userspace drives don't magically make software better. X can crash the machine, especially as it's doing funky stuff over the AGP/PCI[X] bus.
However, X is one of many things. In general less kernel crashes is a good thing. If nothing else, it makes drivers easier to debug, which means less driver crashes, too. Also, C is a great language, but no language is perfect for all things. Some drivers may be much easier (therefore shorter and fewer bugs) to write in other languages. Again, that leads to fewer driver crashes, which again is a good thing.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Well, they formed from the merger of the OSDL and the Free Standards Group. So they do everything those two thing groups did, including pay Linus to hack on the kernel.
Looking at their about pahge, they also provide legal services, work to promote standards, and provide a neutral forum for debate. The also run sites like LinuxPrinting.org (as it used to be called).
How much of that is truly useful is perhaps open to question. One of the legal services for instance is protecting the Linux trademark, which hasn't proved the most popular activity in the open source milieu. I've also seen concerns voiced about the joining procedure (you buy your way in) and the fact that the board seemed overly staffed with corporate types, with actual developers being a bit thin on the ground.
I think the big trouble is that everyone knew who the OSDL were. This new entity is going to take a bit of getting used to. That said, they seem to be doing good things, so more power to 'em.
Don't let THEM immanentize the Eschaton!