I’m flabbergasted at the ease of upgrading a live fedora system between versions. This is not supposed to work, especially with lots of customized public/service processes. Yet, a ‘yum update’ from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13, live, worked almost with out a hitch.
Well, there is always postgresql, breaking updates since (before) 2007.
If this article quotes Ted Ts’o correctly, we have a problem.
The quote:
Ted Ts'o, a Linux kernel maintainer who joined Google in January 2010, said both Novell and Red Hat ship patches that were rejected by the Linux kernel but no one describes their distributions as Linux forks.
It's nothing new," he said. "Novell has a number of patches and SUSE ships with code somebody rejected but no one says Novell forked the Linux code. Red Hat ships SystemTap and no one says Red Hat forked the kernel."
Ted ought to know that systemtap is not a kernel patch. It has never been a kernel patch. It has never been posted to LKML as if it were a kernel patch. This makes his anecdote a lousy simile to Android, whose kernel does contain controversial patches. Portraying systemtap as if it were “rejected” or had any similarity to a kernel fork gives a completely false impression of the nature and history of the project.
I hope there was further context given at the conference, or else he was misquoted. Otherwise, the conference attendees were mislead, and our project was needlessly slighted.
Upstairs, just after bath time for the brats, after some hallway chatter about protons and density, then:
`Enough talking about the periodic table, put on some clothes!’.
 claim: When convinced he's right — which is often — he turns his head at the podium to the right and left, gazing above his audience into the near distance…in fewer words: “Obama’s teleprompters make him look haughty” |
UPDATE: Barack, Can We Talk?
For those of us who started their hacker careers in the 1980s, documentaries like Jason Scott’s Get Lamp and BBS are a pure sentimental pleasure. They cover technologies we grew up with, participated in, which gave us our impetus in the field. Their authenticity separates them from a routine TV show: the interviews are given by the real people who built and championed all that great early home computer stuff. However, Jason is a talented enough to weave them into stories that are interesting to non-specialists too. My dear lady wife has enjoyed whole chunks of the BBS documentary.
The documentaries are CC-licensed, so you can watch/try them for free. If you like them, toss some bucks Jason’s way and get the disks.
During half an hour of goofing around on our synthesizer (though that’s interesting too), I managed to eke out enjoyable (or at least recognizable) enough noises that Eric awarded me with a proposed name for my act: “Airship Disasters Music Band”. Someday, I’ll leave the computer business for music, and I’ll use that name. You heard it here first.