Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th Jan 2007 10:26 UTC, submitted by george
Linus Torvalds explains why the unexpected resilience of kernel version 2.6 has delayed the move to kernel version 2.7. In this two minute video he said that when work started on 2.6, he was worried that major changes would destabilise the kernel.
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RE[3]: Kernel is so stable
by w-ber on Fri 19th Jan 2007 12:03
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A bit on a tangent...
I find features like autosave a really odd solution to crashing problems. It's effectively saying that "We don't care that our program crashes, we don't care to fix it. Or actually we don't know how. Instead, let's add this autosave feature to not offend users."
Well, it's pretty much as you already said.
RE[4]: Kernel is so stable
by superstoned on Fri 19th Jan 2007 12:07
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indeed, userspace is much more unstable. but crashes aren't that disastrous either - most apps now have autosave (which will be improved in KDE4) so you won't lose (much) data, and they can be restarted quick and easy, esp with functions like the crash plugin in konqueror (lately firefox has something like that as well). An Xserver crash is pretty serious, tough, but they don't happen very often either.
it's not like i'm arguing app crashes aren't bad, of course, they should be prevented as much as possible, but you must agree it's not as bad as a kernel crash...