[ILUG] OOM discussion...

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, David Murphy wrote:

  I'm not saying I'll never ever use linux for anything again as long as
  I live, but it has/had this major problem with it, which was not fixed
  for a very long time, which means it, and the people responsible for
  it, are very suspect in my mind,

as dave airlie explained, it was more a case that linus does not like
plastering over problems with bad code. he's fastidious about
that. He'd rather have bad behaviour and clean code, and he'll refuse
"unclean" patches, until eventually someone produces a patch that
meets his approval.

(it goes back to the idealism thing we were discussing on
technobabble)

  exactly the same as the big problems
  NT has, and has had forever, which means Microsoft are very suspect in
  my mind, which means that NT will be far down on my list of choices
  of OS.
  
  I remain convinced that I'm judging every OS I use on the same
  criteria.
  
i'm sure you do, and it's admirable. But lets save the knives for
technobabble. :)

regards,
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