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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!labtam!news.mel.aone.net.au!OzEmail!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: bos@serpentine.com (Bryan O'Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user Date: 4 Jun 1995 16:57:25 +0100 Organization: Polymorphous Thaumaturgy Lines: 19 Sender: bosullvn@maths.tcd.ie Message-ID: <3qsl55$b6n@bell.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <D9K4Iz.BJM@midway.uchicago.edu> <3qo2af$nqo@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3qq5i8$2jj@anshar.shadow.net> <3qqotb$sla@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <MMEAD.95Jun4013608@Glock.COM> <3qsj62$aft@bell.maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: bosullvn@maths.tcd.ie NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes: > (2) Linus Torvald's kernel code is a model of clarity, in my view. > It bears comparison with anything I have seen from AT&T or Berkeley. Perhaps his original kernel was such, but ever since it got out onto the net, Linux has had a Chinese Army of people who have only the faintest clue what they are doing monkeying with its internals and patching it willy-nilly. The code still looks fairly clear, but it seems to suffer major upheavals without either notice or documentation, and the #&^$ networking code is still a steaming pile of crud. <b -- Let us pray: What a Great System. Please Do Not Crash. bos@serpentine.com ^G^IP@P6 http://www.serpentine.com/~bos