Re:Bus1: a new Linux interprocess communication proposal
by vidarh on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:34PM
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> Aha, you mean like redhat and IBM did, where there are now "kernel developers" who can't find their way out of a wet paper bag,
No, I mean like I can find any number of actual maintainers with a known track record and make them an offer to pay to have work done. Been there. Done that. Got good results.
> in order to have a look at what your presumption looks like in the real world...
It's not a presumption. It's actual experience in finding people to do work.
> ...Because we need more beta filesystems
Not everything is about need. While I work full time with Linux, a lot of what I use my computer for is fun, experimentation, learning. So yes: We need more beta filesystems. It's great that people experiment and learn. Everyone should try their hand at kernel changes, to learn - it's not magic.
> ...which ext3, which was on this Veritas disk group, wasn't able to recover, let alone detect. In the 21st century. Because community. I last saw a problem like this on Solaris ten years ago, since it has been a solved problem since 2006 there. Bryan is correct, I do have clean water, and even modern medical care facilities!
So use Solaris then, if you have so many problems with Linux. We're not forcing you to use Linux. It's not a dictatorship. I'll happily admit to all kinds of warts in Linux - I explicitly made the point that Linux has plenty.
> I have zero interest in how much of a community Linux has
Good for you. Meanwhile, for me, the community makes all the difference in making sure that I, e.g., has a decent sized hiring pool at all levels when I need developers, or which means that pretty much no matter what I try to do, there are people who have done it before I can ask questions of.
To me, that matters far more than avoiding a few warts.
No, I mean like I can find any number of actual maintainers with a known track record and make them an offer to pay to have work done. Been there. Done that. Got good results.
> in order to have a look at what your presumption looks like in the real world...
It's not a presumption. It's actual experience in finding people to do work.
> ...Because we need more beta filesystems
Not everything is about need. While I work full time with Linux, a lot of what I use my computer for is fun, experimentation, learning. So yes: We need more beta filesystems. It's great that people experiment and learn. Everyone should try their hand at kernel changes, to learn - it's not magic.
> ...which ext3, which was on this Veritas disk group, wasn't able to recover, let alone detect. In the 21st century. Because community. I last saw a problem like this on Solaris ten years ago, since it has been a solved problem since 2006 there. Bryan is correct, I do have clean water, and even modern medical care facilities!
So use Solaris then, if you have so many problems with Linux. We're not forcing you to use Linux. It's not a dictatorship. I'll happily admit to all kinds of warts in Linux - I explicitly made the point that Linux has plenty.
> I have zero interest in how much of a community Linux has
Good for you. Meanwhile, for me, the community makes all the difference in making sure that I, e.g., has a decent sized hiring pool at all levels when I need developers, or which means that pretty much no matter what I try to do, there are people who have done it before I can ask questions of.
To me, that matters far more than avoiding a few warts.