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Torvalds Bemoans Size of RC7 For Linux Kernel 3.5
alphadogg writes "A host of small modifications and a large number of system-on-a-chip and PowerPC fixes inflated the size of release candidate No. 7 for Version 3.5 of the Linux kernel, according to curator Linus Torvalds' RC7 announcement, made on Saturday. Torvalds wasn't happy with the extensive changes, most of which he said he received Friday and Saturday, saying 'not cool, guys' in the announcement. However, the occasionally combustible kernel curator didn't appear to view this as a major setback. 'Now, admittedly, most of this is pretty small. The loadavg calculation fix patch is pretty big, but quite a lot of that is added comments,' he wrote, referring to the subroutine that measures system workload."
There are few things more painful than a swollen kernel.
Linus is getting bitchy lately.
Yeah, and RMS was talking non-sense yesterday. What is the world coming to ...
morcego
Who the hell this Linus thinks he is by criticizing Linux development??!111?
"Not cool guys." - linus OHMYGHOSH, front page news.
Obligatory.
Yeah, and RMS was talking non-sense yesterday. What is the world coming to ...
Yesterday? I'm a big fan of RMS - since before the beard - but the day he doesn't talk non-sense will be news.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Yeah, and RMS was talking non-sense yesterday. What is the world coming to ...
Yesterday? I'm a big fan of RMS - since before the beard - but the day he doesn't talk non-sense will be news.
Exactly my point. Just like the day Linus doesn't get bitchy :)
Geez, I figured we were all past the <sarcasm> tag already.
morcego
Sounds like the kernel could use a good refactoring.
Let's recode the whole thing, and this time, we'll do it RIGHT!
There are few things more painful than a swollen kernel.
It's nothing an antibiosic shot wouldn't fix.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
The HURD guys would like a word with you...
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Gastrointestinal network address translation. The details are a bit mucky to me at this point.
Geez, I figured we were all past the <sarcasm> tag already.
</sarcasm>
Ah, there, that's better...
If you don't close your sarcasm tags, my sarcasm parser will get messed up and my whole day gets very confusing.
If my comment didn't sound as good in your head as it did in mine, then I guess we all know who's to blame
How about a real distro, like CentOS or Scientific Linux?
Get a real man's distro, slackware.