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Even if the Hurd didn't depend on Linux code (and as far as I know, it does, but since I think they have their design heads firmly up their asses anyway with that whole microkernel thing, I've never felt it was worth my time even looking at their code), I don't believe a religiously motivated development community can ever generate as good code except by pure chance.
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People say that you should not micro-optimize. But if what you love is micro-optimization... that's what you should do.
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See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)
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I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right [...].
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The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances. In other words, it's an Oracleism.
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But this is definitely another of those "This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Al-biwan Ke-Viro, you're my only hope" issues. Al? Please don't make me wear that golden bikini.
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I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.
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Controlling a laser with Linux is crazy, but everyone in this room is crazy in his own way. So if you want to use Linux to control an industrial welding laser, I have no problem with your using PREEMPT_RT.
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It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.
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December 28, 1969
(age 54)
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Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer, who is the creator of the Linux kernel and for a long time, principal developer; that became the kernel for operating systems, such as GNU and years later Android and Chrome OS.
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