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Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough"
The Slashdolt writes "After a stern criticism from Linus, the long-time kernel hacker Alan Cox has decided to walk away as the maintainer of the TTY subsystem of the Linux Kernel, stating '...I've had enough. If you think that problem is easy to fix you fix it. Have fun. I've zapped the tty merge queue so anyone with patches for the tty layer
can send them to the new maintainer.'" A response to a subsequent post on the list makes it quite clear that he is serious.
QUIT!, Can't blame him.
The quality of a programmer is often proportional to his ego.
This sounds like another good reason to switch to BSD. Strike two linux!
(FWIW strike one is linux's sound architecture)
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If you refuse to use software developed by a person who flamed someone else, then I assume you're not familiar with Theo de Raadt?
And frankly if you prefer BSD, more power to you. Use what you want.
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That's exactly the issue. Servers don't need much driver support: just for things like chipsets, RAID cards, ethernet cards, etc. Servers don't need drivers for things like 3D video cards, sound cards, USB gadgets, video capture cards, etc.
Does FreeBSD even have any 3D video drivers for Nvidia or AMD? If not, then it's not worth even thinking about using it on the desktop for most people.
I'd say huge FAIL. An app should have no need to know about http to get an image from any program to an image editor. What would happen if you dragged it out of an email attachment? Would gimp use imap to retrieve it?
Linux GUI usability is a huge FAIL compared to its commercial competitors.
Err, that seems incredibly tame for a conversation between two developers on a contentious topic. The way I'd speak to a volunteer (or a new college hire who's sprirt I didn't want to crush today).
Here's an actual email snippet from a frustrated architect to a frustrated developer at my last job (with dozens of devs CCd) "and if you can't understand even this simple concept, you should give up programming as a career because you're not smart enough to do it". And that wasn't even crunch time. Crunch time produces actual shouting matches (no sleep for a week sort of surpresses appropriate social responses). But then, we're paid to put up with one another.
People who are passionate about their work have impassioned coversations about technical issues, and when the other guy seems to simply be ignoring you, you escalate your tone.
Of course, this is Linus. My favorite Linus quote "if you're still using CVS, you're stupid .. and also ugly."
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