[rescue] Linux wet paint, was Re: Spark10 CPU question (must fix - SPARC damnit :-) )

[John Hudak]

Well said, and from my perspective, very true.  Clever 'kids' who rush to
judgement thinking they can always do it better, but lack the ability to
ask and think about a critical question: I wonder why they did it that
way??? Seems like everyone wants to make a name for themselves by making
something "new n better." I've picked up more than a few pieces when
something that was once solid, fell apart.
J


On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
wrote:

> On 12/15/2016 09:07 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Linux.  There is nothing -really- wrong with Linux. It's a little
> > utilitarian. Almost too much of a good thing. It's in our TV's and in
> > our phones. Who thought that was going to happen 20 years ago? It seems
> > to take up new features pretty quick, and the paint is always a bit wet,
> > either in the kernel, applications or even within the distribution.  I
> > think it's always been like that, and I'm not convinced it will ever be
> > better.  The paint around a feature will cure, but there is always wet
> > paint somewhere.
>
>   I attribute this to a simple lack of discipline.  Working on stability
> and cleanup, or drying the paint, isn't as much fun as working on the
> next whiz-bang feature.
>
>   One thing that the Linux developer crowd seems to have a lot of fun
> doing is getting rid of "old crufty stuff" (read: proven, standard
> stuff) and replacing them with "better ideas" (from kids who are
> brilliant but who don't yet have enough experience to know what not to
> do) that are somehow better but they can never quite tell you why.
> Systemd comes to mind here.
>
>   It's all about maturity and discipline, two things that are sometimes
> lacking in that world.
>
>               -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
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