GNOME 2.24 Released

thhamm writes "The GNOME community hopes to make our users happy with many new features and improvements, as well as the huge number of bug fixes that are shipped in this latest GNOME release! Well. What else to say. I am happy." Notably, this release is also the occasion for the announcement of videoconferencing app Ekiga's 3.0 release.

Comments

tagged bsd?

[mdemonic]

Don't try to push this onto us. This is gnu all the way

Re:Huge number of bugs?

[lennier]

"Sadly the reality is that it's just too hard to write such complicated software without bugs."

FAIL.

'Sadly, the reality is that it's just too hard to build robots which don't run amok and get hijacked by alien monsters and destroy everyone. That's just the cost of living with new technology! But look! It's SHINY! And NEW!'

On the Internet, where every bug is potentially a zero-day security exploit, that attitude is not just wrong, it's LETHALLY wrong. You lose at programming. Please choose a new career. Feel free to let the recycle bin hit you on your way to /dev/null.

Re:Huge number of bugs?

[lennier]

BZZT.

If your software is released with ANY bugs, your customers' computers are already walking spam zombies and the bad guys have already won.

You want to know why the Net is drowning in malware that you gripe about every day on Slashdot? YOU are why! YOU, the coders who shrug and assume 'everything has bugs', and then blame the 'stupid user' for YOUR negligence to do basic array bounds checking because 'C is fast' and 'real programmers are smart enough not to make mistakes'.

Try again. The Internet needs less crap. Either go out of business already, or use formal methods if you have to, but QUIT WRITING ZERO-DAY EXPLOITABLE SOFTWARE.

Seriously. If your software has ANY security-exploitable bugs AT ANY TIME IN ITS LIFECYCLE then you have FAILED and have committed malpractice.

Oh, but the software 'engineering' industry doesn't have any kind of registration or licencing bodies, does it? Maybe it needs some.