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Re:Linus: Don't bother with grsecurity. Their patches are pu... by ivanbakel on Sunday June 25, 2017 @10:52PM (#14633702)
It's a struggle to respect the security opinions of someone who has actively admitted that he thinks "[security] bugs are just bugs". [0] Personally, I find it quite hard to respect Linus generally - his offensive personality is clearly not something that would be appropriate coming from anyone else in any community, but for some reason he gets a free ride for being a difficult genius.

0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/11/05/net-of-... N.B. The article is a bit deep in technical inaccuracies - it calls Linux an OS, for example.

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Re:Linus: Don't bother with grsecurity. Their patches are pu... by ajarmst on Sunday June 25, 2017 @10:57PM (#14633728)
Nooooooo! Now we have to listen to the "what is an OS?" semantic flamewar!
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Re:Linus: Don't bother with grsecurity. Their patches are pu... by pyroinferno on Monday June 26, 2017 @10:43AM (#14637152)
>For Linux, the operating system that Torvalds created

Stopped reading right there. First of all, Linux is not an operating unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS. Because of that, the Operating System is not Linux, but rather GNU/Linux (or GNU + Linux which I recently have been calling it).

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