Somehow this does not give me a warm and fuzzy feeling about
the length of the next Linux kernel development cycle.
> And don't EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than
> what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a
> feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence _much_ too much credit.
Linux is what it is because of design, not accident. And you know
that better than anyone.
If mindless rooting about could make a good OS, then we'd all be using
[ in a rare moment of good sense I don't finish this sentence ]
The question is whether Linux can still be designed at
current scale.
> Quite frankly, Sun is doomed. And it has nothing to do with their
> engineering practices or their coding style.
The San Andreas fault?
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