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I.S.T. wrote:If you read Linus' posts on Real World Tech's forums, you'll see similarly aggressive language. He's just a very, very blunt guy. Too much so, yes.
Meadows wrote:I.S.T. wrote:If you read Linus' posts on Real World Tech's forums, you'll see similarly aggressive language. He's just a very, very blunt guy. Too much so, yes.
Oh my, because saying "hell" and "moron" constitutes aggressive language.
Meadows wrote:I.S.T. wrote:If you read Linus' posts on Real World Tech's forums, you'll see similarly aggressive language. He's just a very, very blunt guy. Too much so, yes.
Oh my, because saying "hell" and "moron" constitutes aggressive language.
Ryu Connor wrote:I stumbed across this rant today and was amused. I always find it interesting when certain key players of an operating system vent at an element of their own creation.
crabjokeman wrote:What's even more funny is that he's using suse (which probably means KDE4) after his huge rant about how terrible KDE4 was when it first came out, and how he was switching to Gnome.
just brew it! wrote:Well... Linus is the kernel guy. He really has nothing to do with the desktop GUIs (other than as a user). The desktop environments are developed by 3rd parties, and sit at least three layers above his kernel in the software stack.
Meadows wrote:Oh my, because saying "hell" and "moron" constitutes aggressive language.
Flatland_Spider wrote:That makes Linus's post equivalent to lard in the cooking world, tasteless with zero nutritional content.
Flatland_Spider wrote:That makes Linus's post equivalent to lard in the cooking world, tasteless with zero nutritional content.
Washer wrote:Over the top language, not surprising really. I've been pointed to several Linus rants in the past where he's gone equally over board due to minor frustration. What cracked me up is that the bigger issue that he's neglecting is that there's only one Linux distro that works even reasonably well on the MacBook Air. Speaks to the greater problems of Linux far more than a mildly frustrating password policy.
Captain Ned wrote:Flatland_Spider wrote:That makes Linus's post equivalent to lard in the cooking world, tasteless with zero nutritional content.
Try biscuits made with lard vice those made with shortening. You'll taste the difference.
Ryu Connor wrote:You owe me a Green Apple Lambic for making that post.
Consider it a cosmic debt for being Captain Obvious.
Madman wrote:Not completely, because kids shouldn't be able to install p0rn gadgets that are automatically installed on first web page visit. Or p0rn print drivers.
chuckula wrote:Now I'm 100% aware of the fact that it is technically possible to setup a complex sudoers file that allows non-root users to use "sudo" for a limited set of tasks. However, setting all of that up is a major PITA even for someone like Torvalds.
Wrong, and extra negative points for being arrogant enough to both misunderstand the problem and then assume that the proper fix is too difficult for Linus because it's too hard for someone clearly as great as you.
chuckula wrote:Linus is pointing out a legitimate problem but it's partially of his own making. Linux (in its default flavor) follows the UNIX model of security almost to a fault. In UNIX you basically have the superuser (aka root) who is effectively God on your system (not to turn this into a R&P thread). The regular users on the system are little peons who typically can just run programs allowed by the superuser.
What Linux needs is more granular security that goes way beyond the normal read/write/execute on files permissions bits of the past. There are technologies to do this alread (SELinux, etc.) but they are not well integrated into most distros. Getting the improved security technology accessible to the regular user is a big deal that Linux still needs to improve on.