Linus Torvalds has released version 2.6.25 of the Linux kernel. "It's been long promised, but there it is now. Special thanks to Ingo who found and fixed a nasty-looking regression that turned out to not be a regression at all, but an old bug that just had not been triggering as reliably before."
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While I did not find the lone reference to "winblows" to be all that notable and would not have pointed it out myself... since the topic has come up, I'll briefly weigh in. Terms like "Winblows", "Microsoft", and "Microsoft" (the OSNews Censor kicked in on the last two terms. Please feel free to use your imagination.) do diminish one's credibility a little, or a lot, depending upon the point of view of the listener. If the objective is to be as persuasive as possible, it makes sense to avoid such terms, as there is really no up-side to using them. Few people are going to find a post more persuasive due to its use of derogatory slang terms, but many people will find it less so.
At any rate, that's my pragmatic, nonjudgemental slant on the issue.
Edit: I find the OSNews policy of censoring nonprofane terms from users' posts to be far more offensive and annoying than the use of the actual use of the terms by users. These terms do add a certain connotative element to the post, and censoring them removes useful information.
Edited 2008-04-19 15:35 UTC
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Yes.. describing something by what it actually is, makes me SO much more juvenile and unserious, than say.. being the CEO of the worlds largest company, and throwing chairs yelling: "IM GOING TO f--kING KILL GOOGLE!!"
yes, i totally see your logic.. or perhaps it makes me more serious than a mega corporation failing to properly implement transparent png for more than a decade, while my simple mobile phone can display transparent png's as icon for mobile java applications.. Yes.