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Re:The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers by jcitme on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @06:21PM (#2356802)
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Re:The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers by kijinbear on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @07:44PM (#2357131)
They don't all work on the same part of the kernel.
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Re:The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers by bad_user on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @07:58PM (#2357167)
Sorry, but that's one of the stupidest arguments I ever heard (not referring only to you, but also to the parent's parent that brought it up).

Linux is a monolithic kernel, and because kernel parts depend on one another, unfinished changes are often blocking other changes and/or are breaking other parts.

Of course you aren't going to have 1000 developers working on the same line in the same file.

Linux is a product by itself, not a distribution of independent parts. You either have the whole kernel, or you have nothing. And I would die to see another kernel developed by 5 people, achieving the same feature-parity / stability and all that jazz as Linux.

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Re:The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers by dalore on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @07:08PM (#2356994)
It is GNU/Linux thank you.
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Re:The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers by krakensden on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @07:35PM (#2357104)
Distributions are GNU/Linux. The Linux kernel is Linux.

And yes, I did well actually you.

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