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"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of QR codes and profile pics
Of Cox'es and their hackings"
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DGzr5UFEIXM/AAAAAAAAAAI/A...
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And, interestingly enough, a senior maintainer who quit because he got sick of Linus' behaviour.
That's not true at all, Alan Cox stated himself > I'm leaving the Linux world and Intel for a bit for family reasons. I'm aware that "family reasons" is usually management speak for "I think the boss is an asshole" but I'd like to assure everyone that while I frequently think Linus is an asshole (and therefore very good as kernel dictator) I am departing quite genuinely for family reasons and not because I've fallen…
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And, interestingly enough, a senior maintainer who quit because he got sick of Linus' behaviour.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/373
When I first read this, I thought this was meant to be a sarcastic statement on SystemD haters, but this is for real? I would assume this is all geared to scratching some kind of retro computing itch?
People used to learn programming by learning assembly language. Here's one example for the 68000: First page of contents: http://imgur.com/1XCLrsQ Example instruction description: http://imgur.com/MV6Le34 Hello world: http://imgur.com/5yKJlQ9 Off topic but if anyone is ever in Cheltenham UK (or is prepared to pay postage) I have some old books I want to get rid of. http://imgur.com/AWV9HLn
[1] http://symbos.org [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-oBNh0UkQc
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It could also be an exercise in open computing, hailing back to an era before legal attacks and ubiquitous surveillance. Being released in 1976, the Z80 architecture is well known and unencumbered by patents. It's also simple with fixed instruction timing, meaning it can be well tested, leaving few places for a back door to hide. The original hardware probably predates any surveillance programs (edit: and the silicon…
The original ARM was inspired by and designed on the 6502 (in the sense of they visited Western Digital and realized the designing a CPU was actually feasible for a small team, them emulated the design on a BBC Micro with 2nd processor) but IIRC Sophie Wilson stated they have no actual technology in common.
When I first read this, I thought this was meant to be a sarcastic statement on SystemD haters, but this is for real? I would assume this is all geared to scratching some kind of retro computing itch?
People used to learn programming by learning assembly language. Here's one example for the 68000: First page of contents: http://imgur.com/1XCLrsQ Example instruction description: http://imgur.com/MV6Le34 Hello world: http://imgur.com/5yKJlQ9 Off topic but if anyone is ever in Cheltenham UK (or is prepared to pay postage) I have some old books I want to get rid of. http://imgur.com/AWV9HLn
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https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/373
Yes, I'm familiar with the incident. I was reading LKML when it happened. It's a counterpoint to the usual "Linus's style doesn't cause any problems."
Yes, it's critical, but is the criticism unwarranted? He is questioning why one of the most senior maintainers is directly contradicting one of the most central "edicts" from Linus on the kernel development: Don't break user-land. In the message, Linus directly quotes Alan as arguing that breaking userland is ok.
Of course Alan was/is free to disagree, but he should have known very well that Linus would never let that fly. Not least because Linus had told him it wouldn't, and he kept pressing for it.
What was the alternative? From the outside, it looks like Alan repeatedly avoided doing what Linus told him needed doing. Linus could not have backed off without sacrificing the guarantee of not breaking userland.
