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Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer

Posted by Soulskill on from the arguing-about-penguins dept.

alphadogg writes: "An argument between developers of some of the most basic parts of Linux turned heated this week, resulting in a prominent Red Hat employee and code contributor being banned from working on the Linux kernel. Kay Sievers, a well-known open-source software engineer, is a key developer of systemd, a system management framework for Linux-based operating systems. Systemd is currently used by several prominent Linux distributions, including two of the most prominent enterprise distros, Red Hat and SUSE. It was recently announced that Ubuntu would adopt systemd in future versions as well. Sievers was banned by kernel maintainer Linus Torvalds on Wednesday for failing to address an issue that caused systemd to interact with the Linux kernel in negative ways."

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  1. It's Kay's fault I didn't get First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would have gotten first post if I wasn't running both the base kernel’s debugging routine and that of systemd.

  2. Re:informal poll by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    who runs Linux these days?

    Linux is 25 years old now. You don't run it, you walk it slowly with a leash and let it have a pee on the front lawn.

    --
    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  3. Re:informal poll by EvanED · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't get why anyone runs Windows.

    I sometimes run Linux and sometimes run Windows. Why? Because it's nice for my OS to piss me off in different ways instead of always the same ways. :-)

  4. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those of us lacking in perspective on how Fun! kernel debugging is, here is a voice from the MS side of things. Dangerous curveballs ahead.

    http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf