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That reddit thread is a giant dumpster fire full of toxic malcontents.There's literally nothing negative about Torvalds' post. He realized that being unnecessarily abrasive wasn't doing either the Linux kernel development process or his own personal relationships any good, and he's taking the time to reflect on it and figure out a better way forward. It's a good thing, full stop.
On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 4:29:25 AM UTC-4, cto wrote:
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I really like that perspective. Thanks for sharing. As somebody who has both been accused and guilty of being too harsh with colleagues, that opinion threads the needle in a way that makes perfect sense to me. The key takeaway is that it's okay to attack ideas, and that it's less okay to attack people. However it can be easy to confuse the two especially when you are the attacker.
September 23, 2018 8:17 AM, "Arnold Silvernail" <nai...@gmail.com> wrote:
Another view of Linus Torvalds taking time off:
That reddit thread is a giant dumpster fire full of toxic malcontents.There's literally nothing negative about Torvalds' post. He realized that being unnecessarily abrasive wasn't doing either the Linux kernel development process or his own personal relationships any good, and he's taking the time to reflect on it and figure out a better way forward. It's a good thing, full stop.
On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 4:29:25 AM UTC-4, cto wrote:
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Minix is... miniature. It's unlikely to replace the Linux kernel, for much the same reason FreeDOS doesn't replace Windows. It's quite fast within its scope, but it doesn't do anywhere near all the things, or scale upward anywhere near as far as it would need to.
Honestly, if that tabloid-esque doiemedo article Nail posted was
actually correct in all its pearl-clutching and
oh-my-stars-and-garters Linux died, there would be some annoyance
and a few fits and starts, and in relatively short order, the
whole world would then be running on *BSD. The major - really, the
only - reason the whole world isn't running on *BSD right
now is that the Linux community got a bigger and better developer
mindshare, resulting in it developing faster than BSD did. (Twenty
years ago, Linux as both a kernel and an operating system platform
was way behind FreeBSD. That developer mindshare I
mentioned is why that changed pretty rapidly, with the two
swapping places somewhere in the mid to late oughts.)
Allow me to go ahead and place my bet now: that doiemedo (or
however you spell it) article is a bunch of vapors; Linux will be
just fine, thank you very much. Feel free to point and laugh a
year (or five) from now if I'm wrong; anybody else want to plunk
their own virtual currency down on the other side and say doiemedo
is exactly right and this is "the beginning of the end" and Linux
will be dead soon? =)
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